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CHAPTER PRESIDENT'S REPORT You are receiving this newsletter just a few days before the annual meeting. At that time I will be stepping down as President of your Upper Midwest NAIOP Chapter, having served a two-year term. I am extremely pleased at the progress this chapter has made during the past two years and also during the two years previous to this when I was Program Committee chairman. NAIOP has become the most active and most interesting commercial real estate trade organization in this area. You will find most of the active people in this business at our meetings and on the many busy volunteer committees that NAIOP has. Our organization has become a well-recognized and highly thought of trade organization. Each member has found it the best place to get an exchange of information on this industry. Along with this information exchange you have found it to be a way to meet most of the people in this business and have also had a lot of fun doing it. We all seem to truly enjoy getting up at 6:00 a.m., fight. Ding the weather and the traffic to arrive at a 7:30 a.m. com- mirtee meeting. Most of us have found that these committee meetings start off with an exchange of information on "what is going on" and then going into the business of the com- mittee. Being an NAIOP committee member is a real privilege and a great learning experience. I have seefi this organization nearly triple in size and have seen the breakfast meeting attendance rise from around 50 to an average that now exceeds 150. We now have a Board of Directors comprised of people who are in the upper circles of management of most of the impor- tant commercial real estate companies in this area. We have selected this important group of people to help us direct our efforts in making this chapter one of the best in the nation. A look at our company masthead should give this organiza- tion a great degree of importance. I have seen our treasury increase substantially. We now have a war fund with which we can protect ourselves at the legis- lative level before bills become law. These funds have enabled the legislative committee to act and react on legislation in a way that will protect our industry. You will fred our The spectacular program and atten- dance at the All Day Seminar on March 24 was a great inspiration for your incoming Program Committee in kicking off a new program season in April 21. Congratulations to Steve Gage, Program Chairman, and each of the 1980-81 Program Committee members for an outstanding year of service to NAIOP. Your efforts have been invaluable to all of us. legislative efforts to be even more effective as the years go by. We have hired Ed Harfington as our managing director and ours is the only NAIOP chapter in the nation having a paid administrator. Ed will help in organizing us into an even better group as he becomes more familiar with us. You have already seen many, many of his suggestions followed. We feel that it is essential to have professional and lasting advice for a trade organization to continue. Many of you remember when we had no newsletter at all and when our breakfast meetings were announced on a simple photocopied flier. We now have a very professional, glossy newsletter which, in addition to our membership, we also send to the seven-county mayors, city managers, planners and other persons influential in this industry. Our newsletter is our message to the public that we are an important and influential organization for our industry. We want the public to know that when an NAIOP member develops a property, it will be done ethically, in a timely fashion and in good taste. We want the public to welcome NAIOP members as developers in their communities. In summary, I feel I am leaving this chapter in excellent shape and that the chapter will continue to offer each of you the best sen'ices that can be offered by a trade organiza- tion. I wish to thank the membership and the many volun- teers for helping me create this wonderful organization. - Samuel S. Maxfield NAIOP Chapter President PROGRAM COMMITTEE NEWS Your new committee has met to es- tablish the meeting dates and key AUG 18 topics for the 1981-82 season which are as follows: SEPT 15 APRIL 15 Annual Awards Dinner Hyatt Regency OCT 20 MAY 26 Industrial Market Update Breakfast Meeting NOV 17 MAY 18 NAIOP Comprehensive Couese DEC 15 Minneapolis, Minnesota Financing Update Breakfast Meeting Half-Day Seminar Marketing and Product Change~ la Minnesota Competitive? Breakfast Meeting Office Market Update Breakfast Meeting (Tople open) Breakfast Meeting Half- Day Seminar Business Forecast for 1982 Land Availability Breakfast Meeting -I