• "Pierce County's Influence on Real Estate Development"
  John Ladenburg, Pierce County Executive spoke on issues pertaining to building ownership and management in Pierce County. As Executive, John works hand-in-hand with towns, cities, businesses and organizations on the biggest issues facing Pierce County today. Transportation, public safety, salmon restoration, education, the environment and economic development are just a few examples.
   

• Jan Angel, 26th District House of Representatives Candidate
  Jan Angel addressed our 2009 Regulatory Points.

Please click here for your September Meeting evaluation form.  Everyone that returns this form to Katie at aminc2@comcast.net will be entered in a wine basket giveaway.

Thank you to Total Grounds Management for sponsoring our dessert.

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Dale Stone
Tel 206.248.9700
E-mail:comfort@holadayparks.com

This month BOMI International has provided the designation "Top 10 Lists" for the BOMA Local Marketing Idea of the Month. These three flyers reveal 10 motivating reasons why industry professionals need their BOMI designation. 

Order your 2008 EER
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Green Tip of the Month
Please check out another great Green Tip from Brandan at UBM.
Office Supplies Room

• Copier:
  Using the “standby” button on your copier will lighten your energy load by 70% percent.  It costs about $50 million to power the nation’s copiers annually.  Cut that by 70% percent and save $35 million and enough energy to provide a month’s worth of electricity to more than one hundred thousand homes.

• Printers:
  Print double –sided pages, and use an inkjet if you can. Laser printers use three hundred watts of electricity, while inkjets use only ten.  Workers can save the equivalent of 5 % of all home electricity usage in the United States, or the amount of energy contained in four lightening bolts, by using an inkjet printer instead of a laser printer.  And of course, don’t forget to recycle your ink cartridge.

• Staples:
  Use an eco-stapler, which doesn’t use metal staples, for tasks that require binding five pages or less.  Some 643,000 metric tons of staples are produced annually in the United States.  If one-third of the documents that are stapled could be bound without staples, we could keep nearly a trillion staples out of the trash each year. (If you would like one, UBM can send it to you for free!)
   

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