I would like to thank the membership of the PAA for allowing me to represent the PAA as your president. The PAA is a great organization for promoting the auction industry.

 

This is going to be one of the most important years in recent history. The online issue has been the main focus for us this year. Thanks to the legislative committee, chaired by Bob Clinton and our lobbyist Jay Layman of Capital Associates. The committee has gone above and beyond to prepare the very important HB1899 to submit to Representative Sturla. This bill will clarify the wording for online brokers. It has been very time consuming and the PAA is very fortunate to have these brilliant individuals working on our behalf. I want to personally thank them.

 

As you know our conference and show held in January, was our 60th anniversary. I believe everyone found the seminars to be very helpful. We hope you enjoyed “Why Behavioral Selling Works” presented by John Schindler. The massage therapist was well received. Thanks to Sherman Allen for initiating it.

 

The bid calling champion this year was John Hess, and the champion of champions was Nevin Rentzel. A fun time was had by everyone at the fun auction also.

 

I want to thank the SE chapter and Kevin Smith for their effort of raising over $9000 to donate to the Farm Show Scholarship Fund on our 60th anniversary.

 

I also want to thank the NE & SW chapters for the Fun Auction and the Champion of Champion contest.

 

We have started working on next year’s Conference and show already. Bill Anderson Sr, our president-elect is the conference chair. If you have anything special you would like to have at the conference and show I’m sure he would be delighted to hear from you. We will be having our first FREE DAY sponsored by the State, with the help of the PAA.

 

We also are going to have a brand new web site. Sue Ivankovich has put many hours into it’s design and content. Auction Zip will be hosting it and as you all are aware, they have become a very helpful partner of the PAA

 

The PAA Political Action Committee (PAC) will be headed up by Chairman Bill Howze. They have done a fantastic job last year by going statewide. They will be doing this again in hope of going over 200 members. Thanks Bill, your support during this year with HB1899. As it is vital to our profession.

 

My main goal for this year is to finalize HB1899 and to increase our membership. Feel free to contact me with any problems or suggestions.

 

Submitted by,

Dan Trace

President of PAA