Spring Conference - Tentative Schedule

When:	Thursday, May 19 & Friday, May 20, 2011
Where:	Wyndham Riverfront Hotel 701 Convention Center Blvd. New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Phone No. (504) 524-8200 Block Room Rate: $131.00
Golfing:	Audubon Golf Course 6500 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Phone No. (504) 212-5301 Tee Time: Thursday, May 19 (possibly noon or 1 p.m.) Cost: $45.00 (per person)
Sessions:	T.B.A.
Additional Fees:	Members: $35.00 (per person?..includes meals) Vendor Booth: $200.00 (includes meals for 1 person,  additional $100.00 per person)
RSVP:	by May 5, 2011
Please note that participants are responsible for all fees  including: golf, hotel, and additional fees. Must be registered to attend.

Spring Conference 2011 - Invitation

Dear Facility Colleagues,

My name is Stan Silverii, LAPPA President 2010-2011. I would like to take this opportunity to invite you and all facilities personnel across the State to join LAPPA (Louisiana Association of Physical Plant Administrators). The LAPPA organization welcomes all facility related professionals in K-12, Higher Education, and State facilities management. We invite participation from all levels of management and various industry leaders. In opening the lines of communication, we may be able to assist each other in providing insight to the day-to-day hurtles that we all face in facility operations.

On Thursday, May 19 & Friday, May 20, LAPPA will be hosting the 2011 Spring Conference in New Orleans. Vendors are invited to set up booths in order to provide information on their products and/or services. Sessions will be held by various professionals on a variety of topics in our industry.

Our conference agenda is attached. A registration form will be sent to you by email. There are no membership fees to join LAPPA. To learn more about our organization, please visit http://www.lappa.us/.
We look forward to meeting you at the Spring Conference.

Sincerely,

Stan Silverii
President

Fall 2010 Details Finalized

All items of Fall 2010 Agenda have now been finalized. The conferences page has all the updates.

The registration forms for the conference have also been posted. Here are the direct links to the forms

• Member Registration
• Vendor Registration

See you at Grambling!

Hotel details for Fall 2010 meeting announced

You should find the following info on the conferences page at LAPPA site also.

Hotel Info:
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Ruston
(318) 513-9777
Rate: $85.00

Please bring tax-exempt form with you to receive non-tax rate
Block Group Name: LAPPA

In order to receive group rate you must reserve room by October 22, 2010.

The Hospitality Suite for October 28, 2010 - Thursday Night from 8pm-11pm - will be in the Peachtree Room.

LAPPA website moved to new location

We have moved LAPPA website from LSU-HSC to LSU-BR. We thank IT personnel (Jason Edelen) at Shreveport for their assistance in this move. Since the old site needed updates, we used the opportunity to move the data to a different template. Hope you like the look. Be sure to comment/suggest improvements.

The new site can be accessed at
http://lappa.lsu.edu

or http://www.lappa.us

Inform your colleagues about this move. If they are have not received updates about the Fall 2010 meeting, this blog, or the new website, they should contact us at lappa@lsu.edu.

We will update the jobs link, when we develop a better way to aggregate postings at common Louisiana HR sites. Also, the photo gallery will be updated after the current set of images are collated.

We have requested Shreveport to redirect all traffic to LAPPA site to http://www.lappa.us . We will have SRAPPA update its Louisiana link to the current site.

Help! Some of the information/links may be archaic. Please review the site for inaccuracies/broken links etc and update the admin here or at lappa@lsu.edu . We hope to cleanup the site by the Fall 2010 meeting.

Message from Stan Silverii - Fall Agenda

September 15, 2010

Hello LAPPA Members:

Due to the unforeseen and disappointing circumstances of Chris Sampitec and Bruce Ayres no longer being employed in our system, adjustments to the positions they held will be necessary by our Board.  I know we all wish them well in their future endeavors. On August 20, the Board met to discuss the Fall 2010 Conference.  Thanks to Ray Dudley and Grambling State University for accepting to host the conference.  Please find the agenda below for the upcoming conference in October.

Also, thanks to Paul Favaloro and Sai Pinnepalli, Ph.D. Assistant Director, IT at LSU for their efforts in assisting with the LAPPA web site. Sai is currently working on the huge task of getting the website updated.  Please respond to his e-mail in order to update current members and contact information.  If you know anyone at your facility or another education facility that is interested in being added to the list, please have them e-mail their contact information to Sai.  We are trying to increase our membership this year.

Once again, thanks to the Board Members that took time from there busy schedules to attend the Board Meeting.  Remember to visit the website for more information on the upcoming conference.

Sincerely,

Stan Silverii

LAPPA Member

Louisiana Association of Higher Education            

Facilities Officers

Grambling State University

Grambling, Louisiana

Agenda

Fall Meeting 2010

Thursday, October 28 & Friday, October 29

Thursday, October 28

12:00 p.m. – Golf Tournament ($30.00 person/cart/green fee)

                      Trail Ends Golf Club

  5:30 p.m. – Dining, Awards & Social Event

                      Trail Ends Golf Club in Pavilion

Friday, October 29

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Breakfast & Vendor Social

                                       Eddie Robinson Museum

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Session I – T.B.A.

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. – Session II – T.B.A.

10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Break & Vendor Social

11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Session III (Capital Outlay, Facilities Planning & Control)

11:30 a.m. – Lunch & Adjournment

Web site and electronic communication

LSU, Shreveport had been maintaining the LAPPA site for the past few years. After Satish's departure from LSU Shreveport, the site's maintenance has been ignored. LSU will takeover the responsibility of maintaining the web site.

We thank Satish for his efforts during his tenure as webmaster for LAPPA.

We are discussing various options for site maintenance. IT at Shreveport is making arrangements to handover data to LSU. When the new site is setup, we'll broadcast the info to all LAPPA members. We are making arrangements to obtain domain such as lappa.org (or lappa.us) to dissociate the site's website from any one member institution.

We will also be maintaining a list of all members at lappa-l@listserv.lsu.edu. This will prevent the need for users to maintain this list independently. This list will only be used for broadcast purposes. Other than the current lappa committee and webmaster, no one else should use this list.

In addition, we have started this blog http://lappa-talk.blogspot.com . This blog should help us maintain info about conversations and news pertinent to LAPPA community. Most of the information here will be informal. Please feel free to follow and participate in conversations.

Please contact Sai Pinnepalli (sai@lsu.edu) for additional information regarding the web site or the mailing list.

Thanks.