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CSA Summer 2010 Newsletter

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New Board of Directors Elected

CSA members gathered in New Haven on June 22nd for the association’s annual meeting. The event started with a tour of the Smilow Cancer Hospital. This was followed by a cocktail reception and dinner at Leon’s Restaurant and the election of the new Board of Directors and Officers.

This year the members-only event found attendees celebrating another terrific legislative victory. With the passage of Senate Bill 131 retainage amounts in commercial construction and large residential contracts will be reduced from 7.5% to 5%. The new law will go into effect on October 1, 2010.

The new CSA Board of Directors includes:

President
William Flynn, Electrical Contractors, Inc.

Vice President
Jeff Clement, Modern Mechanical Systems

Secretary
Jim Newbury, Bestech, Inc.

Treasurer
Mike Sabol, Mahoney Sabol & Co., Inc.

Directors
Meg Amenta, Smith Automatic Sprinkler
John Boudreau, M. J. Daly
Mike Brodeur, S. G. Milazzo & Company
Steve Colapietro, Northeast Fire Prevention
Dan Filomeno, Acoustics, Inc.
Steve Fisher, S.G. Milazzo & Company
Dave Hunt, Berlin Steel Construction Co.
Bill Keohane, Steeltech Building Products
Peter Mossa, Jr., Ferguson
Ronald Ver Heul, SRI Fire Sprinkler Corp.

Steven B. Kaplan, Legal Counsel
Michelson, Kane, Royster & Barger, P.C

CSA Establishes Legal Hotline

The CSA’s legal counsel, Michelson, Kane, Royster & Barger, P.C., is now available to answer quick questions for members about basic construction law topics, such as: time frames for filing a mechanic’s lien or a payment bond claim; availability of Connecticut statutes for payment or retainage problems on private construction projects; lien waivers; liability of a general contractor for prevailing wage claims against a subcontractor.

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