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PCCA
CONVENTION REVIEW

Sun Shines on PCCA's 2021 Convention

In early March, the Power &
Communications Contractors Association
held its 76th Annual Convention at the
Naples Grande Beach Resort in Naples,
Fla. Some 340 association members,
family, and friends attended the convention, including 42 first-time attendees
and 42 sponsoring companies. This shows
how pivotal this time is for the industry,
the importance of the work PCCA is doing

and, of course, that folks really want to
get out of the house.
The convention featured the first-ever
PCCA/CGA Excavation Safety Summit,
the always-informative PCCA Industry
Roundtable, fascinating speakers, the
Annual Associates Exhibit, PCCA Prayer
Breakfast, and an array of tours, parties,
golf and other networking events. During
the convention, PCCA announced its

Outgoing PCCA Chairman John Fluharty, Mears
Group, oversaw one of the busiest years in
PCCA history, with initiatives on workforce
development, damage prevention, broadband
spending, and grid hardening.

New PCCA Chairman Bob Breeden told the Final
Party audience that " we have a lot on our plates
this year " and asked members to join committees,
report to DIRT, respond to the association's
lobbying alerts, and help recruit new members.

2021-'22 scholarship recipients, honored
outgoing chairman, John Fluharty of the
Mears Group, and welcomed its new chairman, Bob Breeden of ElectriCom.
PCCA/CGA Excavation Safety Summit,
which was conceived and moderated by
John Fluharty, put a contractor (Jerrod
Henschel, Equix), a locator (Josh Hinrichs,
ELM Companies), an association executive
(Sarah Magruder Lyle, Common Ground
Alliance), and a researcher (Mark Bridgers,
Continuum Capital) on stage and elicited
a frank discussion on damage prevention
problems and how they are being addressed.
Magruder Lyle encouraged the audience
to participate in CGA's DIRT (Damage
Information Reporting Tool) Report and
explained the group's Next Practices effort,
which aims to drive innovative solutions to
solve the most critical damage prevention
challenges. Bridgers updated PCCA members on the What Gets Measured Gets Done
study, which is examining utility locating
processes and performance in all of the 48
lower U.S. states to see what is working
and what is not. The study will yield recommendations for structural improvements
that could drive out inefficiencies from the
locating process. Currently supporting the
study, along with PCCA, are APCA, DCA,
NUCA and NULCA.

Industry Roundtable

Pictured from left to right at the Annual Associates Exhibit are Brad Baumann and Jason Phillips from
Gabe's Construction and Rick Johnson and Mark Gallucci from Digital Control.

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As always, the PCCA Industry Roundtable
consisted of three sections: education
issues, government affairs and economic
issues. During the education session, attendees were updated on schools that have
been working with the PCCA to develop
utility construction programs.
State Technical College of Missouri started its Utility Systems Technician program
in Fall 2018, graduated the first 25 students last spring, and saw a 50-percent increase in enrollment this year. Two schools
- Terra State Community College (Ohio)


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