USGBC Annual Membership Event - This Thursday (Aug 27th!) Register Today
David Henderson
Just wanted to remind everyone that the USGBC Utah Chapter annual
membership event is this Thursday at the Wells Fargo building in
downtown Salt lake City.
For additional details on the exact location (because it is in the
building just east of the tower) and for registration instructions,
see the flyer in the files section of the google group.
For those of you who are EGB/Student members of the chapter, the event
is free.
If you have not signed up for membership in the chapter, it is $25/
year and you can sign up on www.usgbc.org.
I have included some basic instruction for signing up for the chapter
below.
For those who want to come, but are not members, it is $20 (so for $5
more you could be a member of the chapter and get other discouts
throughout the year).
Each member or each paying participant can bring one guest.
They have asked that no little children come this year. . which is
kind of unfortunate. . so we'll have to plan another event that will
be more family-oriented later this year.
There will be representatives from the West Region Council there as
well as representatives from USGBC National.
It should be a great event and after the presentations are done, there
is a free concert in the Gallivan Center next door.
Hope to see you all there!
Signing up for the chapter as an EGB/Student member.
1. Go to www.usgbc.org
2. Click on "Your Account"
3. Sign in if you already have set up an account. If not, create an
account for yourself. It is free.
4. Once you sign in to your account hit the big blue "join" button at
the top right of the screen
5. Select "Individual Chapter membership
6. Select "Utah Chapter" from the drop-down list
7. Select "Student" from the membership type drop-down list
8. Hit "continue to checkout" and proceed with payment.
Ellen Nygaard
I think I'll be able to make it to the event! I'm actually going to be in SLC this weekend for some family things, I won't be able to make it til about 5:30 though, but would love to come and meet you and plenty others.
One quick question, I know you mentioned the fee for the event is free to students, is there a student fee to become apart of the EGB though?
Thanks again,
Ellen
Henderson, David
Ellen,
The event is set up so that if you are a member of the chapter, it is free.
Students and young professionals can join the chapter for a discounted rate ($25) through www.usgbc.org.
Normally they don't charge students for the monthly programs.
However, because they are doing a lot of nice food and drinks this time, they are asking people who aren't chapter members to pay $20.
So. . . to me. . it makes sense to just sign up to be a member of the chapter for the extra 5 bucks, because there will be other discounts throughout the year.
I put instructions on how to register as a student/EGB member of the chapter at the bottom of the most recent post on the google group site here:
http://groups.google.com/group/egbutah/browse_thread/thread/250565d5ac5a533a
Being a member of the chapter allows you to get discounts on stuff they do.
I see the EGB group itself, eventually consisting of many people that may or may not be members of the chapter.
I hope to include as many people as possible.
Once we figure out what we want to do, we'll have to see if we can get a budget from the chapter to work with.
Any additional funds we need, however, we'll have to cover another way.
Hopefully most of the stuff we'll do won't cost anything other than a time commitment.
However, some EGB groups like New York, have incredibly huge productions with big budgets, sponsors etc.
So there's a pretty wide range of what we could do.
But for now, I don't plan on charging anyone who wants to participate in the EGB-based events.
So it is just chapter based events that I'll have to be better about warning the EGB about any registration fees.
Thanks
David Henderson