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ABOUT TMC
Mission TMC increases market share for the masonry industry through focused programs. All of our efforts increase value for all stakeholders, including more profits for business owners, more benefits and opportunities for employees and more value for customers. TMC seeks favorable state legislation in cooperation with others to achieve these ends. TMC in partnership with local chapters ensures that an adequate number of well-trained craftspeople and leaders are developed and maintained to support the market share TMC creates. VisionTMC will be a positive, professional, and financially-sound organization effectively bringing many diverse people together to protect and strengthen the masonry industry, making masonry the dominate building material in Texas. All the stakeholders in the Texas masonry industry will be actively involved in the association, an invaluable key to their success. Who is the Texas Masonry Council?The Texas Masonry Council is a group of masonry contractors and suppliers in the state of Texas working together to promote the expanded use and the benefits of masonry. Architects and students in the state of Texas who are involved in strengthening and growing the masonry industry may also be members of the associaiton. Who should become a member of Texas Masonry Council?Any masonry contractor or supplier doing business in the state of Texas would benefit from becoming a member of this association. Likewise, any architect doing business in te of Texas, or any student interested in becoming an integral part of the masonry industry should consider membership to TMC. All members see the benefit of TMC’s efforts...now is the time to step up and contribute to the protection of your market share and your future. See below for some of the benefits of becoming a TMC Member. What benefits will I get from membership?
Masonry Marketing Efforts Statewide The Line - Quarterly Magazine TMC members and over 10,000 architects in Texas keep up-to-date with this quarterly magazine. This first class publication contains current and relevent features pertaining to the construction industry. Click on the Publications button on the left navigation bar to view our most current issues of The Line. The TMC Voice - NewsletterThe TMC Voice is a members only e-newsletter distributed monthly. The e-newsletter provides members with useful information on the current activities in each of the associations active committees. This newsletter is an important tool in networking and creating a sense of community between members and affiliated chapters. Annual ConventionOnce a year, masonry suppliers, masonry contactors, architects and vendors fro m across the state gather to learn, network and celebrate. The convention is always a time to look at the past year’s activity, where the industry is going, and to preview the year ahead. Regular events include educational seminars, evening parties, a golf tournament, sporting clay tournament, masonry skills challenge, fastest trowel competition, general membership meeting and the always popular Golden Trowel Awards. The 2006 Convention will be held in Corpus Christi, Texas on July 27-29, 2006. Registration information will be sent in April 2006. Mason TrainingOur chapters have individual local training programs, which produce trained masons into the workforce each year. Requirements to standardize curriculum in these training schools to make the students mobile is a goal of the association. Statewide Golden Trowel AwardsTMC strives to achieve excellence in all aspects of construction by upholding high principles and inspiring distinction and quality in the members of this organization. Through the Golden Trowel Awards, the association recognizes architects who demonstrate excellence in design, as only excellent design gives skilled masons the challenge to excel in their field as well. To find out how you can submit a project into the competition, view the 2006 Golden Trowel Rules. Award Design HistoryIn the year 2000, the TMC staff, with input from local stone carver Phil Hoggatt, Carved In Stone, designed the current Golden Trowel Award. Our objective was to create a timeless monument that would be identified only with the masonry industry and specifically with the Texas Masonry Council and its affiliated chapters. Furthermore, it had to communicate the craftsmanship, durability and beauty of masonry. The result of this collaboration realized this vision and the award represents the quality of the project for which it stands and the industry that built it. Quarried in the Texas Hill country, blocks of this beautiful crème limestone are wrested from solid beds of stone, but first, quarry-men remove an overburden of soil and caliche several feed deep. Their toil and enduring effort yields a stone prized by stone masons and stone carvers. The winner from each TMC Chapter are submitted to the state level competition and evaluated in four areas: design, craftsmanship, percentage of visible masonry/overall aesthetic appeal, and masonry difficulty. TMC appreciates and offers sincere gratitude to the architects and contractors who honored these awards with their time and their talents. One project in every category from each TMC chapter is chosen as winner for the region. NetworkingThe oportunity to network with other individuals like yourself is always a benefit. When you belong to the Texas Masonry Council, you also be involved in your local masonry chapter. These chapters have meetings monthly for you to network with your industry peers, stay on top of industry trends and get involved in changing the future of this industry for the better. TrainingThe TMC Training Committee works with the local chapters’ training programs to ensure that an adequate number of well-trained craftspeople and leaders are developed and maintained to support the market share TMC creates by acting as a information conduit for the continual improvement of each training program. The committee’s mission is to make each program the finest quality and most well respected program in its respective area. ReferralsYour membership entitles you to our online member database that stays organized by area and business category. New business comes to your door when we advertise our member list in Texas Architect magazines and various publications throughout the year. State Legislative RepresentationTMC offers you updates on legislative activity as they occur. The association watches legislation that directly effects a masonry contractor or supplier’s business. From prompt payment, to lien laws, to soveriegn immunity, your issues will be watched in the Texas legislature. As a member of TMC you are also a member of the Texas Construction Association, an organization of subcontractors who actively and rigorously works to improve laws for the benefit of the construction industry, including masonry. In the legislature, power is numbers...join in our efforts now! How do I join?Click on the Application button on the left navigation bar to download the pdf membership application. At-large MembershipIf there is not a local chapter in your area, you can still be a member of the Texas Masonry Council as an at-large member. We realize some areas may be too far away geographically to be able to enjoy the benefits of local membership. Your participation in the state association allows you to participate in all statewide pro-masonry efforts, and will keep you in touch with your industry. Join us in our statewide efforts to promote the continued use of masonry in the state of Texas! ValuesThe leaders and members of TMC aspire to these values at all times:
BYLAWS That we, the undersigned subscribers hereto, citizens and residents of the United States of America engaged in the Mason Construction Industry, and being desirous of associating ourselves together, in order to promote and encourage greater cooperation between employers and employees, to promote the general welfare of all, to protect and advance our industry, to promote and encourage a better understanding, friendship and closer relationship among ourselves and our employees, to encourage and aid in the education of apprentices, thereby creating greater effectiveness in the Industry, do now adopt, declare and establish these Bylaws for our said organization and as declaratory of its purpose. CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS ARTICLE I ARTICLE II 1. To promote and encourage greater cooperation between employers and employees, by aiding and encouraging more friendly relationships between the members of this Organization, their employers and their organizations, undertaking to bring into this industry the humane feeling between employers and employees that should properly exist. 2. To promote the general welfare of its members by the collection and distribution of reliable and useful information to its members, thus affording and providing means for the intelligent consideration and action in matters pertaining to employees, to facilitate and improve the methods of handling material necessary in our industry and to provide the best and most satisfactory methods for the submission of an execution of building contracts to the end that the masonry industry be surrounded by proper safeguards for the protection of life, limb and property. 3. To promote and encourage efficiency in the art of masonry construction, and to generally encourage and aid in the education of trainees in the industry, and to generally encourage the movement to build with all masonry materials. 4. To promote and encourage the principles of justice and equity in all dealings between employers and employees, co-employers and co-employees, architects, engineers, material dealers, manufacturers and the general public. 5. To promote, encourage and advocate needed and helpful legislation for the masonry industry, for the general good of all. 6. To counsel, advise, encourage and secure honorable dealings in the performance and execution of contracts with each other, with employees, with the members of other trades, and with those engaged in the erection and construction of buildings. 7. To promote and encourage the formulation, adoption and establishment of such customs of business as will be just, equitable and honorable between man and man. 8. To assist in the uplift and elevation of the standards of the masonry trade, and to encourage members and their employees to a better standard of life and living. 9. To cooperate in every honorable and legal way with organizations and associations in allied lines, and with individuals, firms and corporations in different lines of business for the general good of our industry. 10. To secure and aid in the correction and reformation of any wrongs affecting the general interests of the building industry. 11. To encourage the obedience to the spirit and letter of all laws and ordinances made by the Federal, State and Municipal governments for the regulation, control and conducting of business activities. 12. To make absolutely certain that no action be taken by this Association or the members hereof which in any form or manner would or might be construed as a participation in or encouragement of any illegal arrangements or combination for the control of labor, or the restriction thereof, or any arrangements or combination for the fixing of prices or the restriction of competition. ARTICLE III Section 3.02. Chapter Jurisdiction. Upon filing for membership, the local Association must indicate its area of jurisdiction on the application form. Section 3.03. Individual Membership. Where no local Association of Mason Contractors is established, any individual, firm or corporation regularly engaged in and primarily interested in the promotion of the Mason Contracting Industry, shall be eligible for membership in this Association. It shall be the primary duty of the individual member to encourage the organization of Mason Contractors in his jurisdiction. If, in any particular area, a local Mason Contractors Association is established but not affiliated with this Association, the Board of Directors may grant an Individual Membership. Section 3.04. Mason Contractor. A Mason Contractor is defined as any person or group of persons who, for either a fixed sum, price, fee percentage, or other compensation, undertakes or offers to undertake, or purports to have the capacity to undertake, or submits a bid or does himself or by or through others, to contract, to erect, construct, repair, rebuild, or improve a building, bridge, tunnel, sewer, conduit, or other structure or improvement, or any interior or exterior part thereof, for others with the use of brick, stone, terra cotta, tile or any other product or material which by itself or in combination with other products or materials, is embraced within the terms "masonry" or "mason work: by industry or trade custom or meaning; and includes the furnishing of any labor and manufacture or supplier of materials incident thereto. Section 3.05. Associate Member. An Associate Member is any non-contractor who manufacturers masonry related materials or supplies Mason Contractors or any other interested party with documented business with a Mason Contractor. Section 3.05 A. Affiliated Member. An Affiliate Member is any interested Architect or Engineer. Section 3.05B. Educational or Training Member. Any teacher, trainer, student or trainee with an interest in this association. Section 3.06. Membership Application. Any eligible Association, individual, firm or corporation shall make application for membership in writing upon forms prescribed by the AMCT. All applications shall be submitted to the Membership Committee who shall have full authority to approve or disapprove such applications. Section 3.07. Membership Certificate. As evidence of membership in the Associated Masonry Contractors of Texas there shall be issued to each local Association of Mason Contractors, or to each individual, firm or corporation, a Charter or Certificate of Membership in such Association. Such Charter or Certificate shall be signed by the President and Secretary-Treasurer, and impressed with the seal of this Organization, such Charter or Certificate giving the full rights and benefits of the services and advantages to be rendered by the Association. The Charter to be issued to any local Association of Mason Contractors, and the Certificate to be issued to individual members, firms or corporations, shall be in such form and substance as may be provided by the Board of Directors. Section 3.08. Seal. The seal of this Association shall be a circular metal disc, around the outer margin of which shall be the words "Associated Masonry Contractors of Texas," and across the center thereof the word "Seal," so mounted that same may be used to impress said words in raised letters upon paper. Section 3.09. Revocation of Membership. The Charter issued to each Mason Contractor Association and the Certificate issued to individual members shall be revoked by resignation or for nonpayment of dues. The revocation of a Charter or the expulsion of a member, other than nonpayment of dues, shall require a hearing before the Board of Directors, of which due notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be given the offending member, and then the right of appeal from the action of the Board of Directors will be given to the Annual Convention of delegates assembled, if so desired, by the aggrieved party. Section 3.10. Membership Rosters. On or before the first day of the fiscal year of the Association each Chapter Secretary shall file with the AMCT Executive Office a complete roster of its membership. It is the responsibility of each Chapter Secretary to notify the Executive Office when Chapter members are dropped or resign. Section 3.11. Honorary Membership. An Honorary Member is defined as any person who has been a member of AMCT and active in the masonry contracting business for at least ten (10) years and has retired from active business and is an honorary member of his local AMCT Chapter, and such individual shall be eligible for an honorary membership in the Associated Masonry Contractors of Texas. An honorary member shall not be eligible to hold office, have voting privileges or be required to pay dues. This class of membership is to be conferred in the sole discretion of the Board of Directors. ARTICLE IV ARTICLE V ARTICLE VI ARTICLE VII ARTICLE VIII Section 8.02. At the expiration of his term of office he shall transfer to his successor in office all funds, books, papers, and other property of the Association which he may have in his possession. Section 8.03. The Secretary-Treasurer shall keep minutes of Annual Meeting, and all regular and special meetings of the Board of Directors. ARTICLE IX ARTICLE X ARTICLE XI Section 11.02. It is incumbent upon the Board of Directors to fill any vacancies upon this Board should one occur during the term office. Should any one of the Board of Directors regularly fail to attend meetings, the Board reserves the right to declare his office vacant. A duly authorized successor shall be appointed by the Board of Directors to fill the vacancy. Section 11.03. Should the need for an Arbitration Board be required, the President of the Association is hereby empowered to appoint three (3) members in good standing in the Association from the area where the dispute has arisen, but not parties to it. These three members will then constitute the duly appointed Arbitration Board and will meet to assist in resolving the dispute that has arisen. The Board will elect its own Chairperson. Section 11.04. The President, with the approval of the Board of Directors, shall appoint all Committee Chairpersons and Committee members. The standing committees of the Association shall be Increase Market Share, Increase Value, Legislative, and Training and Recruiting. The Executive Committee Chairperson shall be the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. Only Board of Directors approval can change these committtees. Section 11.05. All appointed Committees shall hold hearings, and the result of such hearings shall be submitted with their recommendations to the respective standing committee it is under for final approval or rejection. Only the standing committees may bind or contract this Association as long as the purpose is approved by the Executive Committee. Section 11.06. Additional Committees. The Board of Directors shall have the power to designate such committees in addition to those herein set forth as they deem necessary to protect and further interests, purposes and objectives of the Association and its members. Members of such Committees, except the Chairmen, shall be appointed by the president, without approval of the Board. Chairmen of such Committees shall be appointed by the President, subject to the approval of the Board. ARTICLE XI A ARTICLE XII Section 12.02. The Annual Meeting of the members of this Association will be held at such times as the Board of Directors shall designate. Notice of such Annual Meeting shall be given by the Secretary-Treasurer to each organization and members of this Association by written notice at least thirty (30) days prior to the time for said meeting. Section 12.03. Vacancy. In the event any office becomes vacant, the vacancy may be filled in the following manner. The Board of Directors shall nominate a person or persons to fill the vacant office. The nominated person(s) name(s) shall be communicated to the board members who shall have an opportunity to nominate and vote on the candidates. The Board shall determine the specific procedures to be followed for nominations and voting. If only one person is nominated, there will be no need for a vote by the membership. ARTICLE XIII Section 13.02. The fiscal year of the Association shall begin on September 1 and terminate August 31 annually. The fiscal year 2001 shall be a shortened fiscal year to align the Association with the new fiscal year structure and the Strategic Plan. The 2001 fiscal year will begin January 1, 2001 and terminate August 31, 2001. The fiscal year 2002 will begin September 1, 2001 and terminate August 31, 2002. Section 13.03. Separation for Nonpayment. In the event the dues of a Chapter or Individual Member are not paid before the expiration of one hundred twenty (120) days after due date, such member shall be deemed delinquent and shall be notified by the Executive Secretary to that effect. If, after such notice, the member shall neglect or refuse to pay within thirty (30) days from date thereof, such omission shall constitute a suspension of all rights and privileges and the member shall be dropped from membership in the AMCT. Section 13.04. The Board of Directors may levy an assessment upon the individual membership of each Chapter in order to clear out a deficit or to provide operating funds. At no time shall the total annual assessment be greater than $5.00 per individual member per year. ARTICLE XIV ARTICLE XV ARTICLE XVI Section 16.02. These Bylaws may be amended at any other time, after approval by the Board of Directors, by such proposed amendment being mailed to all members for voting by mail in which case such amendment shall pass and be made effective by a two-thirds vote of all those members voting. ARTICLE XVII ARTICLE XVIII ARTICLE XIX Section 19.02. Payroll account checks may be signed by anyone of the following: President, Secretary-Treasurer, or Executive Secretary. The payroll account to be limited to the amount of not more than three (3) months' payroll and to be replenished from the General Account as required. Section 19.03. The signatures of the President, Secretary-Treasurer and Executive Secretary shall be on record at the bank designated by the Board of Directors for the payroll account. ASSOCIATION BYLAW PROVISIONS FOR ANTITRUST COMPLIANCE Section 2. IMPLEMENTATION A. Association Membership, Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and other Committee meetings shall be conducted pursuant to agendas; reasonable revisions to the agenda may be made as the Board sees fit; discussions shall be limited to agenda items; there shall be no substantive discussions of Association matters other than at official meetings; minutes shall be distributed to attendees promptly. B. All association activities or discussions shall be avoided which might be construed as tending to: (1) raise, lower or stabilize prices; (2) regulate production; (3) allocate markets; (4) encourage boycotts; (5) foster unfair trade practices; (6) assist in monopolization; or in any way violate federal, state or applicable intentional trade regulations and antitrust laws. C. No officer, director, or member of the Association shall make any representation in public or in private, orally or in writing, which states, or appears to state, an official policy or position of the Association without specific authorization to do so. D. Associate members, officers, directors, or employees who participate in conduct which the Board of directors, by a two-thirds majority vote, determines to be contrary to the Association antitrust compliance policy shall be subject to disciplinary measures up to, and including, termination. The original Bylaws were approved July 1996 and two amendments approved February 9, 1998. Updated with two amendments approved October 22, 1999. Updated with several amendments and an addition, approved September 30, 2000. |
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