2006 Annual Report

11 March 2006

I am pleased to present the 2005-6 Annual Report for the Western Chapter of the Association for Preservation Technology (WC/APT). Since our last meeting in April 2004, the organization has implemented a number of “house-keeping” items to promote the growth and stability of the organization, as well as performing our mission of promoting the interchange of ideas and knowledge concerning preservation of historic buildings, structures, sites, landscapes, museum artifacts, and related materials.

These items include:

• Instituting monthly Board of Directors meetings
• Updating of our by-laws
• Re-establishing non-profit corporate status
• Creating a membership database
• Creating a web-site
• Sponsoring/Co-sponsoring events
• Sponsoring a student scholarship to the 2005 APTI Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Priorities for 2006

• Fundraising
• Normalizing our calendar of events
• Establishing partnerships with like-minded organizations
• Student outreach
• Continued multidisciplinary membership growth

EVENTS:

Events are critical to our mission of knowledge exchange and one of the key benefits to our membership. Since April 2004, WC/APT has sponsored/co-sponsored the following events:

• A tour of the ornamental plaster and cast stone studio of Michael H. Casey Designs in San Francisco
• A tour of the Gladding McBean Terra Cotta manufacturing plant in Lincoln, CA
• A tour of the Manuel Palos Sculpture Studio in San Francisco
• Co-sponsored lecture Sustainable Disaster Recovery of Historic Buildings: Learning from San Francisco after the Loma Prieta Earthquake! by Fatima M. Al-Nammari
• Tour of Seismic Retrofits at the Alcatraz Cellhouse San Francisco Bay Area
• Co-sponsored a Masonry Restoration Workshop with Cathedral Stone Products, Inc. in both the San Francisco area and Los Angeles area
• Workshop entitled FRP, An Alternate Material for Restoration, Replication and Strengthening and Tour of Kreysler & Associates composite materials manufacturing facility.
• Tour of the Concrete Repairs at Battery Spencer, located in the Marin Headlands portion of Golden Gate National Recreation Area
• Co-sponsored a Masonry Restoration Workshop with Edison Coatings in the San Francisco area
• A presentation on using a hand-held XRF machine to determine the presence of hazardous materials

The following activities are in the planning stages:

• Presentation on 3-dimensional laser scanning and documentation of historic structures and sites
• Stone sculpture workshop
• Tour of Pasadena City Hall seismic upgrades
• A roundtable discussion and reception entitled APreservation and the Project Delivery ProcessA
• A symposium on the preservation of modern materials

MEMBERSHIP

Thanks in large part to the efforts of our Vice-president of Membership, John Maillard, the WC/APT membership has grown substantially. When the group re-activated in April 2004 our membership was at 41, today we are up to 139 individual members.

FINANCES

Refer to the attached financial statement.

ELECTIONS:

Elections for the Board of Directors were held in January 2006. The 2006 Board of Directors is as follows:

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John D. Lesak Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc, Inc. 2550 N. Hollywood Way, Suite 500 Burbank, California 91505 Tel: 818.303.1300 Fax: 818.847.0051 jlesak@wje.com	James McLane EHDD Architecture 500 Treat Avenue, Suite 201 San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel: 415.285.9193 x351 Fax: 415.285.3866 j.mclane@ehdd.com	Nancy Goldenberg Carey & Company 460 Bush Street San Francisco 94108 Tel: 415.773.0773 Fax: 415.773.1773 Ngoldenberg@carey-sf.com
Kim Rivera Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc, Inc. 2200 Powell Street Suite 925 Emeryville, California 94608 Tel: 510.428.2907 Fax: 510.428.0456 krivera@wje.com	Veronica Martin Wiss, Janney, Elstner Assoc, Inc. 2200 Powell Street Suite 925 Emeryville, California 94608 Tel: 510.428.2907 Fax: 510.428.0456 vmartin@wje.com	Taryn Stubblefield Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. The Landmark @ One Market, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 Tel: 415.495.3700 Fax: 415.495.3550 TNStubblefield@sgh.com
Melisa Gaudreau Page & Turnbull 724 Pine Street San Francisco, CA 94108 Tel: 415.362.5154 Fax: 415.362.5560 gaudreau@page-turnbull.com	Stephanie Kingsnorth Pfeiffer Partners 811 West Seventh Street, Ste 430 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Tel: 213.624.2774 Fax: 213.895.0923 SKingsnorth@pfeifferpartners.com	Becky Urbano Garavaglia Architecture One Sutter Street, Suite 910 San Francisco, CA 94104 Tel: 415.391.9633 Fax: 415.391.9647 becky@garavaglia.com
Peyton Hall Historic Resources Group, LLC. 180 S. Parkwood Avenue Pasadena, CA 91107-4712 Tel: 323.469.2349 x21 Fax: 323.469.0491 peyton@historicla.com	Chris Gray Mollenhauer Group 601 S Figueroa St Los Angeles CA 90017 Tel: 213.624.2661 x133 Fax: 213.276.4565 cgray@mollenhauergroup.com	Mark McMillan Page & Turnbull 724 Pine Street San Francisco, CA 94108 Tel: 415.362.5154 Fax: 415.362.5560 mcmillon@page-turnbull.com
William Ellinger Ellinger Architects & Associates 516 South Oakland Avenue Pasadena, CA 91101-3330 Tel: 626.792.8539 Fax: 626.792.8539 ellinger.wm@sbcglobal.net	Tom Neary Morley Builders 2901 28th Street, #100 Santa Monica, CA 90405 Tel: 310.399.1600 x201 Fax: 310.314.7347 tneary@morleybuilders.com	Rob Browne Rainbow Waterproofing and Restoration 61 Bluxome San Francisco, CA 94107 Tel: 415.543.2410 Fax: 415.543.6609 rbrowne@rainbow415.com

Executive Officers

John Lesak, President and Jim McLane, Treasurer will continue for another year in their respective offices. A new Vice President, Vice President Membership, and Secretary will be elected from the Board of Directors.

Respectfully submitted,
by John D. Lesak
President WC/APT