Welcome to the
Kansas City Chapter
of the
International Facility Management Association

President’s Podium

BUILT ENVIRONMENT PARTNERS…

It is with great enthusiasm that KCIFMA has introduced to our members our involvement with a new collaboration of professionals in the greater Kansas City area.  This collaboration is the Built Environment Partnership, also known as the BEP.  The members of the collaborative are, in alphabetical order, the local chapters of AIA ASHRAE, BOMA, DBIA, IIDA, IFMA, and USGBC.  And CSI and the EPA are joining soon.

 

 

The BEP was organized to bring together different industries related to the “built environment” for the purposes of giving you an overview of the educational opportunities across all organizations in Kansas City in one place, of sharing and raising the level of education available to each of the member organizations by collaboration, thus getting more for less dollars.

 

A shared calendar, which may accessed at www.BEPkc.org, has been created to view events happening in our industry.  There is also a link to the BEP website located near the KCIFMA Event Calendar on the KCIFMA webpage.   You may access the BEP’s website to see what other built
environment related organizations are doing, and what they are offering

their own members.  Take advantage of these

opportunities !!  When the pool of attendees is increased, we can share expenses, and draw better speakers and better venues.

 

In the future, the BEP hopes to add an interactive feature for shared events, online registration, and for tracking events and attendance.  Currently the site, in addition to the shared calendar, displays each member organization’s logo with a link to that organization’s individual website, as well as rotating advertisements for the BEP’s collaborative events.

 

The BEP is a resource to you, as a member of KCIFMA, and is supported by the professional organizations that are members.

 

The BEP logo is in its final stages of development– so look for it to appear on our website as soon as it is unveiled.

 

MEMBER's CALENDAR...

 

Don’t forget that KCIFMA has a calendar dedicated just to you--our Members!  Any event that you or your company is hosting that you’d like to invite your fellow KCIFMA members to attend, please feel free to post it on the KCIFMA Member Calendar. 

Social events, fund raisers, seminars are all welcome.   Located next to our Events Calendar on the KCIFMA website.

I have seen some really good seminars on that calendar, so don’t forget to check it often.  You may miss something valuable if you don’t.

 

RESOURCE TAB…
	One more re-source on the KCIFMA website is the Resource Tab.  On this tab, we post Power Points from pre-vious meetings (with  permission of the presenters), and also post IFMA news releases.

SPONSORS for the next fiscal year…

We are again soliciting sponsors for the Chapter for the fiscal year beginning July 1.  The last few years we started rather late, so this may feel like we are asking for more money sooner than we should have, when in truth, we’re really just on time this year!  If any of you wish to sponsor, and would like to use one of the “membership” sponsorship options, but you really don’t need to extend your membership right now, just let us know and we’ll deduct that amount from the sponsorship price.  So please, consider sponsoring the Chapter for the next year.

 

Have a wonderful summer!

Betty Klein, CFM, CFMJ

President

Kansas City Chapter

International Facility Management Association

 

 

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