Attendees:

Identify what the School for Advanced Segmental Paving can provide to contractors?(Steve Jones)

• Send people back to work industry enthused about their job (Pat O’Hara)
• Train foremen from square one to eliminate bad habits passed on to the people they train
• Union training (Pat O’Hara)
• Reinforcement
• Save liability, loss of cost
• Delete failure
• The ability to communicate with people at all levels
• The ability to educate the foremen to become teachers
• To prove that proper steps start at the top of the company and are passed down to the workers
• To gain respect for equipment and the owners of the company
• Bring foremen back to company defaults
• Pat O’Hara is enthused about the school.  He is convinced that the school will motivate the attendees to teach.
• The school will benefit everyone to use the same laying method because currently, everyone uses their own method. (Bill Schneider)
• It is one thing to have a license, but it doesn’t change the way work is done in the field. (Steve Jones)
• Laying pavers is a skill that a person learns hands on.  He has hope that this is one place in the country where skill can be passed on. (Volkmar Helmenstein)

Results:  Company would run more efficiently, have more income and have employees take more pride in their work. (Pat O’Hara)

How to use school to reach goal of training foremen effectively? (Steve Jones)
***Make sure participants are the right people to train before attending

• Reinforce Knowledge (Pat O’Hara)
• Leave the School for Advanced Segmental Paving with new ideas(Pat O’Hara)
• Gain a tight bond with employer (Pat O’Hara)
• Teach to empower other people (Pat O’Hara)
• Teach foremen to be teachers (Pat O’Hara)
• Learn how to cooperate (Pat O’Hara)
• When to use right equipment and techniques (Bob Goossens)
• Experience from Video to actual hands-on is crucial to gain understanding (Andrew Vear)
• Demonstrate efficiencies

Volkmar Helmenstein brought up the subject whether or not the foremen will listen to new ideas.

MAIN GOAL: Grow Contractor Business

What skills are most important?

• No job failure – avoid projects failing after 1 year (Keith Waylen)
• Quality of workmanship (Keith Waylen)
• Knowledge on why things fail and how to correct these issues (Barry Hofer & Andrew Vear)
• Apply hands-on
• Experiment-be able to try new things at the school
• Come with open minds and leave with skills
• Physically fit

What School Attendees take back to their companies?

• Planning
• Leadership
• Basics
• Proper use of tools

What type of facility is needed to create a hands-on training?

• 2ft gravel base pit
• Basic training session should be held for 3 days to go over groundwork
• Classroom sizes should be limited to no more than 12 attendees to keep the attention span in the class at high levels.
• Right people to teach

What type of Advanced Sessions Contractors would like to see held at the school?

• Create Pre-requisite class
• If a class was to be given on the entire manual produced by Steve Jones, Pat O’Hara would need 4 days
• Everyone should begin with the basic’s for reinforcement
• Contractors would like to see a class on cutting tools and logistics
• Another class on how to calculate materials
• Edging training – How and when to use it
• How to recognize good base for non-base layers(Keith Waylen)

  Testing
  Check
  Knowledge
  Base evaluation

• How to use equipment and machinery-Advance Technique
• Classes to improve efficiencies and moral
• Advance sections

Contractors would like to see strict training and know that the tuition of the school is being put to good use.Possibly use the school as a reward to foremen to boost their moral for jobs well done.

CONCEPT

• Classes would be held in the months of November – March
• Hold initial meeting this spring, May 13-15, 2005 . One foremen from each company
• 8-12 people in attendance
• Need commitment from Contractors to help support school
• It takes $20,000 to develop curriculum from outside source
• Money for trainers
• Money for video and media

Meeting will take place inside for classroom input and consist of training outdoors (if the weather is cooperative).  If the weather is bad, PAVE TECH in Franksville will shut down for the day to allow the training to be held indoors.  Foremen would give feedback on the Class and that feedback will be used for future sessions. 

Russ will create a questionnaire to be completed, that will be posted on PAVE TECH’s website that attendees would be able to download and submit before attending.

Bill Schneider suggested that the Contractors who attended the weekend meeting and who agreed to help fund the School for Advanced Segmental Paving have a title as well. Suggestions were Founding Board and Board of Regents.

PRODUCER MEETING

PAVE TECH, Inc’s School for Advanced Segmental Paving will be holding a Producers meeting on October 29, 2005 , to ask for a commitment of funding for three to five years. 

The curriculum and funding would like to be established before October 29^th to present to the producers at the meeting. 

TARGET DATE

Targeted date to begin classes is December 1^st, 2005 , first week after Thanksgiving. Bring all foremen to ground zero, and then once the basics are completed, allow the foremen to attend the Advanced Classes. 

Chuck Taylor was asked to come and design the class on Permeable Paving.

Also, check your calendar for June 15^th, 2005 .  This will be a one day meeting where we will review the curriculum outline that Pat O’Hara has prepared and we will also get the opportunity to review, Advanced Pavement Technology’s – Bio-Aquifer Storm System presentation.