The Colorado Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (CSSGA) is pleased to announce our scholarship program for the 2013-2014 academic year.  The leadership of CSSGA believes it is very important to support post-secondary education students pursuing degrees in the aggregate, construction management, or mining industries.

CSSGA is offering a scholarship of $1,000 for one academic year, payable in two installments of $500 per semester.

Attached with this letter you will find a two page application which needs to be completed and returned to CSSGA, (1799 Pennsylvania St., Suite 240, Denver, CO 80203) by Friday, April 12, 2013.

Below are the eligibility requirements for applicants:

• Applicant must attend a post secondary institution of higher education within the State of Colorado as a full time student with a minimum of 12 hours each semester.
• Applicant must be either a Junior or Senior in the upcoming academic school year.
• Applicant must have an emphasis or major in a mining, aggregate, or construction industry related field.
• Applicant must be a student in good standing and a transcript must be provided with the application (cumulative GPA 3.0 or above).
• Applicant must be related to an employee of a CSSGA Producer or Associate Member company. Or the applicant may be a part-time seasonal employee of a CSSGA Producer or Associate Member company.
• The successful applicant will be asked to attend a CSSGA Board meeting for acceptance of the scholarship.

All applications are due by Friday, April 12, 2013.  The CSSGA Board of Directors will select the 2013 – 2014 Scholarship Finalist by early May.  The scholarship finalist will then be asked to attend a subsequent Board Meeting to formally receive recognition of the scholarship.

If you have any questions regarding  the application, please call me at 303-771-5290 or email me at pete.jacobson@cssga.org.  Good luck and we look forward to reviewing your application.

Sincerely,

Pete Jacobson

Managing Director

Enclosure: 2013 CSSGA Scholarship Application

The Colorado Stone Sand and Gravel Association (CSSGA) is pleased to announce our scholarship program for the 2012-2013 school year.  The leadership of CSSGA believes it is very important to support post secondary education students who are working to achieve a degree in the aggregate or mining industry.

CSSGA is offering a scholarship of $1,000 for one academic year, payable in two installments of $500 per semester.

Attached with this letter you will find a two page application which will need to be thoroughly completed and returned to CSSGA, (1799 Pennsylvania St., Suite 240, Denver, CO 80201). The deadline to apply is April 13, 2012.

Below are the eligibility requirements for applicants:

• Applicant must attend a post secondary institution of higher education within the State of Colorado as a full time student with a minimum of 12 hours each semester.
• Applicant must be either a Junior or Senior in the upcoming academic school year.
• Applicant must have an emphasis or major in a mining, aggregate, or construction industry related field.
• Applicant must be a student in good standing and a transcript must be provided with the application.
• Applicant must be related to an employee of a CSSGA Producer or Associate Member company. Or applicant may be a part-time seasonal employee of a CSSGA Producer or Associate Member company.
• The successful applicant will be asked to attend a CSSGA Board meeting for acceptance of the scholarship.

All applications are due by April 13, 2012.  The CSSGA Board of Directors will select the 2012 – 2013 Scholarship Finalist during the May 16, 2012 Board Meeting.  The scholarship finalist will then be asked to attend a subsequent Board Meeting to formally receive recognition of the scholarship.

If you have any questions on the application, please call me at 303-771-5290.  Good luck and we look forward to reviewing your application.

                                                                             Sincerely,

                                                                             Pete Jacobson
Managing Director

CSSGA Scholarship Application

CSSGA Holcim June8th

Dear Members,

With another difficult year facing all of us, I have to remind myself that this will pass. I believe the recession will end by 2013. The demand for construction materials will begin the growth cycle again and pressure to reduce capacity will end. We are not in the category of diminishing businesses such as renting videos, selling hard bound books, or printing newspapers. An alternative technology to replace aggregates and aggregate mining is not on the horizon therefore our industry will improve as the economy improves.

The lessons in the depth of the worst recession in the last 50 years of United States history are hard earned. My caution is to not forget those lessons too quickly as our fortunes improve. The industry effects we may have created over the past 4 years will affect the next generation. We cannot pass on a beleaguered mining industry to the young people in the association simply because times got a little tough. Continued defense of our rights to mine responsibly will insure that we will be here at the end of this recession.

My goals this year are to achieve a neutral cash flow for the association and to continue the progress being made on the legislative front. Denny Fields has left me in a very strong position and that enables me to have some fun in the association. Tom Brubaker volunteering to apply for the Mined, Land Reclamation Board (MLRB) vacancy gives me a sense that members are still in this association for the long term. I have been looking forward to working with Pete Jacobson for the past 2 years. Together we continue the press for membership. If this letter makes it to press you will know that Christine Chacon has already done a wonderful job as editor. I want this to be a positive year in a negative climate.

I have no crystal ball or even the slightest hint of economic forecasting ability, therefore I look at history. This cycle will pass. On the other side will be those who were tough enough to survive. That is the history of the mining industry.

Be careful!

Sincerely,
Jerald Schnabel

CSSGA Scholarship letter
CSSGA Scholarship Application

The CSSGA Board of Directors cordially invites you to attend the January 19th Legislative Breakfast Program
with our special guest State Representative Glenn Vaad
Chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

7:15 – 8:15, Wednesday, January 19th

CSSGA, 1799 Pennsylvania Avenue, Denver

(CSSGA is located in the Mountain States Employers Council Complex
and there is plenty of off-street parking)

Please RSVP by Monday, January17 th so we can get a rough head count. RSVP’s should be sent to Pete Jacobson via email at: pete.jacobson@cssga.org. or call the CSSGA office: 303-771-5290.

We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, January 19th.

Last year was a very successful year for the CSSGA. Our ex officio President Pete Siegmund and Managing Director Pete Jacobson did an excellent job guiding us through a tough reces- sionary period. In 2009 we increased our producer membership by 27% and increased our associate membership by 18%! Our mission statement embodies the core of what we will be focused on in the coming year.

CSSGA has an excellent three-committee structure which is directed by Pete Jacobson:

• The Legislative Committee is guided by our lobbyist Totsy Rees and Ben Frei of Albert Frei & Sons.

• The Land, Use & Environmental Committee (our Regulatory Committee) is guided by Corey Hansen of Lafarge.

• The Safety Committee is directed by Jerry Glynn of TXI.

All three of these committees will be challenged this coming year. The Legislative Committee will be moni- toring the Colorado state budget to make certain bud- get constraints do not adversely affect the dollars dedi- cated to Colorado’s roads and bridges.

The Regulatory Committee will work to protect our in- dustry from the new regulations being formed by the SEO, CDPHE, DRMS and the WQCD. The Prebles Mead- ow Jumping Mouse is once again being recognized as a species, I mean as an “endangered species”. CSSGA will also be engaged with the selenium issue, an extremely controversial water issue in western Colorado.

In order to fight regulatory battles, CSSGA has joined a new coalition called the Construction Industry Coali- tion (CIC). With strength in numbers, especially when it comes to lobbying legislators or regulators, we are pleased to be working with other CIC associations in- cluding CAPA, CCA, CRMCA and the Portland Cement Association as we work collectively to protect the mu- tual interests of the construction industry.

The Safety Committee will keep us abreast of all MSHA, OSHA and DOT regulations. Fines that are being lev- ied by these agencies are huge and have the potential to impose a financial hardship on any size company.

CSSGA members must be attentive to the importance of having an effective public awareness campaign for our industry. For this reason I encourage your support of the Teachers Tour. Although we have not scheduled a Teachers Tour for 2010, it has proven to be a valu- able tool for us in previous years. It is imperative that we continue to educate the public about our industry’s impact on the economy of Colorado. The Teachers Tour will be a start to accomplishing this goal.

As members of the CSSGA, it is our responsibility to guide the industry from this generation to the next; the decisions and actions of today will have a long-term effect on our industry. To that end, I would like to thank all of the members that have supported the as- sociation in 2009 and continue to support us in 2010. It is vital that we continue to show the value of our association to other operators that are mining in the State of Colorado who are not presently active in our association. Non-members of CSSGA that mine mate- rial in the State of Colorado also need encouragement in supporting the industry that provides all of us with our livelihoods.

I would like to also thank our associate members for your support in 2009 and for your continued support in 2010. We are excited to announce that we are cur- rently working on four networking events in 2010.

Without the support of our producer members and our associate members we would not be able to continue defending the common concerns of our industry.

Let’s work together on having a great 2010!
Denny Fields

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