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Posted 1/10/11

FEDA Welcomes Hendrix Hotel & Restaurant Equipment & Supplies, Ltd.

FEDA is pleased to welcome Hendrix Hotel & Restaurant Equipment & Supplies, Ltd. into the membership. Please give them a warm welcome at the following address:

Larry Vander Baaren
Hendrix Hotel & Restaurant Equipment & Supplies, Ltd.
3011 Hwy 29, P.O. Box 130
Brockville, ON K6V 5V2
Phone: 613-342-0616
Fax: 613-342-1921
E-mail: larry@hendrixequip.com
Sponsor: Rick Williams, Williams Restaurant Supply

Posted: 1/5/11

FEDA Welcomes Springfield Corporation

FEDA is pleased to welcome the Springfield Corporation into the membership. Please give them a warm FEDA welcome at the following address:
Springfield Corporation
Joe Gill, Project Manager
7012 Best Friend Rd., Atlanta, GA 30340
Phone: 770-729-0700
Fax: 770-729-0995
Email: joe@springfieldcorp.com
Sponsor: George Romberg, Citisco Food Service Equipment

Posted:11/23/2010

Communications from FEDA

DATE:             August 25, 2010

TO:                 FEDA Members

FROM:            Ray Herrick, Executive Vice President
                        Amy Risinger, CAE, Member Services Consultant

It has come to our attention that some of you may not be receiving all of the communications that FEDA distributes and since much of our promotions or alerts are sent by email we wanted to make you aware of some steps you can take to ensure you do indeed receive all communications.

• Many communications are now generated by our Member Services Consultant, Amy Risinger, CAE so please make sure you have her email address (amy@feda.com) on your “approved” list of email recipients.
  
• Oftentimes FEDA First Thing and other correspondences might end up in your junk mail so please make sure to check your “junk mail” often and then highlight any communications from FEDA and designate them as “not junk.”  Hopefully this will enable your system to recognize valid emails from FEDA.
  
• We use two different broadcast systems to deliver our email blasts.  One is from Premiere Communications and that email address should come across as amyrisinger@xmr3.com.  Please white list this address as well.  We also use Constant Contact and that address should list Amy’s FEDA email address but because it is a broadcast email it is often stopped by the Firewall and therefore ends up in the “junk mail” file.  Again, please check for this and designate it as a valid address.  Most recently, we sent FEDA Fast Forward via Constant Contact so if you didn’t receive this communication please check your junk mail.
  
• Other IP addresses that the broadcast company uses that you should have added to your whitelist include:
  

We will gladly email this list to you if that is helpful. Just contact Amy at amy@feda.com and ask her to email IP codes for broadcast emails.  We hope that these suggestions will help to solve this problem and that you will soon be receiving all of the valuable communications that your Association provides.  If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact me (ray@feda.com) or Amy (amy@feda.com). Posted 8/25/10

MA FEDA Members Fight H2999  

H2999, a bill which would allow only designers who have passed the NCIDQ exam to bid on state contracts, has passed the House and is currently in the Senate Ways and Means – which is where we need to stop it.

This bill would prevent FEDA members from bidding on state contracts, now and in the future.  You should also be aware that the sponsor, Rep. Kafta, is pushing for passage of H2999 in order establish a credible reason to pass his interior design title bill, H262.  The true goal of the MA proponents is full-blown occupational licensing.  They have failed to pass several bills over the last 10 years, so have now chosen this seemingly innocuous piece of legislation to try to get their foot in the door so that they can keep coming back to incrementally expand it into a restrictive licensing law.

 For additional details about the bill, how it was able to pass through three House Committees before being amended by the sponsor on the House floor, and Committee contact information, please click on this link to read the IDPC’s newsflash: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs060/1102107213116/archive/1103570747418.html

 We need FEDA members to take action NOW to protect your future rights to bid on state projects.  If adopted, this bill would tie the hands of the bidding authority to select FEDA members – even though they are clearly more qualified should the state specs involve commercial foodservice equipment and expertise. 

Of course, your own words are always best, but you can click here for a sample letter to help facilitate the process.  If possible to fax your letters, that would be best, since it gives legislators a visual “stack” of opposition, but email and postal mail are also acceptable. A list of the Ways & Means Committee members and their individual contact information for your use for your correspondence is available by clicking here.  Please send a letter, fax or email to each one of the committee members if possible. 

With the help of the Interior Design Protection Council we will continue to keep you informed about this legislation and any other that would impact your business.

Posted 7/19/10