Letter from Colorado Roofing Association President

Updates on CRA events in light of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Well it’s March and up here in the mountains the weather has been great and the skiing is still really good. But wait there is no one up here! The streets in Winter Park are empty and the ski areas are closed. What’s going on?  Colorado... rather the whole world, is coping with an issue of enormous scale that is impacting all of us and our communities. Our hearts go out to all who have been affected by the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19). 

Roofing is one of the highest risk industries in the world. We deal with the biggest issues every day and so from my perspective, I am trying to take this in stride and handle this as one more problem to monitor.  To make changes as necessary and then hopefully sooner than later, move on to the next issue that arises after this one.

The CRA Board has gone back on forth over the past several days as we adjust to the situation and tried to come up with solutions on how to handle association activities the next few days, weeks, months.  Believe me our discussion has changed several times over the past 5-6 days.  From a business as usual stance to today when many of our concerns have been taken out of our hands and the decision made for us.  With social distancing being the main focus to slow the spread of COVID-19 down, we have made the decision to cancel our membership lunch scheduled this week on March 19, cancel all of our CRA Training Center courses for the rest of the Spring and reworking our April 9 Hail Assessment pinpoint from a seminar to a 2 part live webinar series.  For the next 30 days, all Board and Committee meetings will be held via conference call.  Beyond this, we will continue to monitor the dynamic situation of COVID-19 and are optimistic that this will be a temporary situation. We are prepared to modify association operations with options that still allow us to serve you.

I have been promoting NRCA's Washington D.C. Roofing Day in D.C. on April 21st & 22nd and just found out today that this year's event has been canceled.  As much as I would like to see it rescheduled, I realize it is not feasible and look forward to next year's event.  Be sure to block your calendars now for March 23-24, 2021.

On a positive note, I want to thank everyone for an extremely successful Awards Dinner on Feb 20th. We had approximately four hundred twenty-three people attend and we had the most jobs entered at twenty-eight entries. Thank you to all of you who submitted a nomination and congratulations to the companies with the winning jobs.

I also want to congratulate Dan Zahtila on his Lifetime Achievement Award; you were truly deserving of this award for all the hard work you have put into the industry and the CRA. Although you could not attend because of illness, your daughter Lacey did a superb job of speaking for you. We hear you're doing much better and again, my sincere congratulations!

Last, during our Board discussions the past few days, one the directors shared this and I want to share it with you.

“Faith and Fear have one thing in common besides the letter F. They both believe in a future that has not happened, yet. Fear believes in a negative future. Faith believes in a positive future. If neither has happened, why wouldn’t we choose to believe in a positive one?”

Please remain resilient and optimistic. Until next month...

Jeff Johnston
The Roofing Company
CRA President
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