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NEWSLETTER
To promote, educate and advocate for the Residential Building & Remodeling Industry; providing
resources that benefit industry professionals and consumers in the communities we serve.
The Shooters aim was spot on for a
day of fun and friendly competition
at NILO Farms.
YAEKEL & ASSOCIATES INSURANCE SERVICES â€œCLAY
BUSTERSâ€ TOP SQUADRON TEAM SCORE = 318
Everyone was excited to be back out together
with a beautiful setting, ammo on the course and
anticipation to break every clay in their sites.
Followed by a delicious lunch from Who Datâ€™s
Southern Food and winner announcements.
WHATS INSIDE
EXCAVATION &
FOOTINGS
DONE!
June will bring many trades and updates as we
are scheduled to have the foundation to exterior
completion by month end
PWB Scholarship Recipient Announcement
Upcoming Events
ïƒ  June 24 - Bury The Hatchet / Axe Throwing Event
ïƒ  July 16 - Herschel E. Johnson Golf Classic
Sport Clay Shoot pictorial
Membership Renewal Updates
NAHB Eye on the Economy News:
Material Prices Continue to Set Record Highs
Mill Owner Discusses Lumber Crisis
Illinois Reports:
HBAI Legislative Update
FOID Card Law new ruling
Illinois Policy Institute: Covid Debt
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Footings & Foundation
Install sewer and water
Basement Plumbing Rough
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Pour basement and garage floors
â€¢ Water Meter
Framing
Electrical Rough In
â€¢ HVAC Rough In
Roof Installation
Exterior Siding & Brick
Plumbing Stack Out
OFF-SITE / COLOR & MATERIAL SELECTIONS
Roof, Siding, Shake & Stone
Kitchen & Bathroom Cabinets
Flooring & Backsplash
Kitchen & Bathroom Countertops
Lighting
Paint
Plumbing Fixtures
Blinds
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Check out the latest videos as
key trade partners share the
process of Building a New
Home in the Metro East
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The expected impact of longer delivery times and higher material costs â€” plus greater overall uncertainty â€” had
measurable impacts on single-family construction and sales in April. Despite the softening of these measures, builder
confidence remains strong in the face of solid demand and inadequate resale inventory. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing
Market Index (HMI) stood steady at a level of 83 in May, although comments in the HMI survey indicate that concerns
continue to grow regarding building materials prices, and labor and lot availability.
New home sales declined in April by 6% on a monthly basis to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 863,000, as the median
sales price rose above $372,000 â€” up 20% from a year ago. In April of last year, 45% of new home sales were priced
below $300,000. Today, that share has fallen to 27% as the entry-level market is particularly affected by higher material
costs. Because of these challenges, single-family starts fell back 13% in April to an annual rate of 1.09 million.
Resale home prices are headed even higher due to lack of inventory, which stands at a mere 2.4-month supply, per the
National Association of Realtors. According to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index, home prices have increased 13% over
the past year â€” an unsustainable pace, given income levels and an expected rise in interest rates later in 2021. These
higher prices have stalled existing home sales, the rate of which fell to a 10-month low in April.
Our forecast projects an ongoing readjustment, returning from the recent post-Great Recession high levels of sales and
starts to more sustainable long-run trends given current (un)availability of materials, labor and lots. Although not a
bubble, the current rate of gains for home prices will increasingly price buyers out of the market. Policymakers need to
focus on ways to improve the supply chain, which will ultimately help preserve economic momentum and offset rising
inflationary pressure.
â€“NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz
Eye on Housing
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Following are important bills that the Illinois General Assembly are looking at in the last days
of Spring Session that were to be addresses by midnight last night. The House adjourned at
2:30 this morning and Senate is coming at in today at 11am to finish up.
â€¢ Consumers & Climate First - Legislation that
would mandate electric car chargers and allow
munis to impose the Stretch Energy Code is still
being worked on but is on life-support. The 950
page bill mostly covers issues with the public
utilities and their carbon foot print.
However, a little slice of heaven was carved out
just for us regarding housing standards to lower
global warming. No bill number to report, but we
know the language we oppose is still in the draft
being worked on.
â€¢ HB2621 - This is the Affordable Housing bill
that, in part, allows tax credits for developers
constructing affordable housing. It also contains
language for rental assistance, both items we
support.
The bill has passed the Senate and is on
Concurrence in the House where it will likely get
final passage today.
â€¢ SB58 - This the Transportation Bill that has
contained in it the lowering of registration fees
on light weight hauling trailers from $118 down
to $36. The fee went up two years ago from $18
to $118. Because so few trailer owners were
willing to pay the $118, the fee was cut way back
to $36 and it is estimated that this will be a
revenue neutral tax cut as trailer owners will be
willing to pay the new fee.
â€¢ SB1847 is the Equal Pay bill, employers with
100 or more employees will register pay data to
the state to determine if employers are abiding
by equal pay laws.
The original language had a 1% gross receipts tax
for non-compliance, the new penalties are less
severe.
â€¢ HB3437 imposes Prevailing Wage mandates
on industries considered to be dangerous for
employees. Oil and gas refineries, chemical
plants, and ethanol plants would be required to
pay Prevailing Wage if HB3437 were to pass.
While the bill moved last night from 2nd to 3rd
reading, it has opposition from the Black Caucus
and may not be called for lack of the votes
necessary for passage.
â€¢ And finally, the Constitutional Amendment to
prohibit statutory passage of a Right to Work
Law in Illinois has passed and voters will
choose in November of 2022 whether Illinois
needs this amendment or not.
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TEAM SCORE = 238
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Scott Wadlow
Chad Meier
Steve Gower
Jay Toler
Cody Srogus
Mike Hartoin
Jerry Yaekel
Scott Gower
Zec Bishop
Mike Baalman
Kurt Lauer
Chris Huff
Marc Frederich
Scott Giffhorn
Dave Dillow
Luke
Brett Schwalb
Mike Farrell
Joseph Goley
Mark Frey
Brian Oeltjen
Hunter Oeltjen
Chris Cooper
Pat Flowers
Matt Seggerman
Scott Schneider
Bryan Herbert
Kevin Betley
Tony Huff
Aaron Klemme
Don Padgett
Luke Yarber
Cole Berry
Jon Meyer
Scott Billings
David Isselhard
Tom Cummings
Scott Bauman
Matt Steely
Cody Trosley
John Voellinger
Adam Davis
EJ Pfirshey
Chris Berry
Mark Dill
Brian Orr
Brandon Weathers
JR Landdeck
John Klopmeyer
86 TFH Construction
85 Metro Marble & Granite
84 Yaekel & Associates - Clay Busters
81 CA Jones Inc.
81 Srogus Construction
81 SCI Engineering
80 Yaekel & Associates - Clay Busters
79 Yaekel & Associates - Clay Busters
79 Padgett Building & Remodeling
78 TWM
77 Ron Woods Excavating
76 TFH Construction
75 Yaekel & Associates - Clay Busters
75 Red-E-Mix
75 SCI Engineering
73 Red-E-Mix
73 Busey Bank
73 SCI Engineering
73 Goley Insulation
71 Red-E-Mix
71 Yaekel & Associates - Flying Saucers
70 Yaekel & Associates - Clay Busters
70 Red-E-Mix
70 Light Brite
69 TWM
69 Busey Bank
68 Padgett Building & Remodeling
68 SCI Engineering
68 TFH Construction
68 Henges Interiors
66 Padgett Building & Remodeling
66 Ron Woods Excavating
66 Yaekel & Associates - Hot Shots
65 Helitech
65 SCI Engineering
65 Yaekel & Associates - Orange Crush
64 SCI Engineering
64 Yaekel & Associates - Flying Saucers
63 Padgett Building & Remodeling
63 Red-E-Mix
62 Helitech
62 Busey Bank
62 Johnson Home Contracting
62 Yaekel & Associates - Hot Shots
61 Yaekel & Associates - Clay Busters
60 CA Jones Inc.
59 Crown C Supply
59 TWM
59 Yaekel & Associates - Orange Crush
Gaines Smith
Bud
Dustin
Mark Eichholz
Clarence Goebel
Keith Reinneck
Steve Dill
Jim Lynch
Mark Mueller
Scott Behrmann
Jim Lugge
Pierce Widham
Herb Frohock
Mark Vasquez
Larry Vitale
Cale Henke
Jack Klopmeyer
Kevin Benson
Mike Yarber
Nathan Sox
Jason Paliatka
Chris Jones
Dan Haverstick
Martin
Todd Rhoades
Bobby Russell
Paul Hanson
Dan Kolb
Kevin Underwood
BJ Srogus
Jake Newman
Tom Martindale
Mark Davitz
Ron Wilson
Shawn Mitchell
Jim Johnson
Mark McBride
Ron Woods
Jim Bargannier
Shane Smothers
Eric Allmon
Mike Geller
Bryan Dodd
Adam Fricke
Jon Travetto
Marty McCabe
Drew Halliday
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58 Padgett Building & Remodeling
58 Srogus Construction
58 Henges Interiors
58 Yaekel & Associates - Orange Crush
58 Light Brite
58 Light Brite
58 Yaekel & Associates - Eagle Eyes
58 Yaekel & Associates - Hot Shots
57 Goley Insulation
57 Yaekel & Associates - Flying Saucers
57 Yaekel & Associates - Eagle Eyes
56 Padgett Building & Remodeling
56 Busey Bank
56 Yaekel & Associates - Flying Saucers
55 Red-E-Mix
55 Busey Bank
55 Yaekel & Associates - Orange Crush
55 Yaekel & Associates - Eagle Eyes
54 Ron Woods Excavating
54 Ron Woods Excavating
54 HBAI / American Colony Homes
53 CA Jones Inc.
53 Authorized Appliance
52 Srogus Construction
52 Parksite
51 Henges Interiors
50 TWM
50 Yaekel & Associates - Eagle Eyes
48 TFH Construction
47 Srogus Construction
45 Busey Bank
44 Srogus Construction
43 CA Jones Inc.
43 Goley Insulation
42 Crown C Supply
42 Johnson Home Contracting
42 Cardinal Door
41 Ron Woods Excavating
40 TWM
40 Light Brite
39 TWM
Scott Muehlhauser 38 Yaekel & Associates - Flying Saucers
Tyler Jones
36 Authorized Appliance
36 Johnson Home Contracting
Derrick Klopmeyer 36 Yaekel & Associates - Orange Crush
Jon Clores
33 Helitech
30 Yaekel & Associates - Hot Shots
29 Helitech
29 Parksite
29 Yaekel & Associates - Hot Shots
28 Metro Marble & Granite
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By Henry Grabar / Slate.com
The late-pandemic supply chain crisis never smelled
quite as good as it did on Wednesday morning in
Searsmont, Maine. The air on the 80-acre campus of
Robbins Lumber was thick with the scent of eastern
white pineâ€”the tallest trees in the Maine forestâ€”
being sliced into boards. Yet the warehouse, a cavernous
hangar designed to store pallets of finished
lumber for shipment, was virtually empty. The company
cannot keep wood on the shelves.
â€œTraditionally, these tiers are about four deep with
lumber on both sidesâ€”you can hardly get a unit of
lumber down the middle,â€ said Alden Robbins, the
companyâ€™s vice president. â€œLook at it now. Weâ€™re running
at about a quarter of our inventory, and weâ€™re
running at full speed, thatâ€™s how much demand there
is. And if we produced 10 times as much as we produce,
we could sell it all right now.â€
That morning, the price of lumber futures on the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange surged above $1,500 for
the first time, a 300 percent rise from this time last
year. Two-by-fours are suddenly very, very expensive,
sending the cost of building a new home up by about
$36,000 on average, according to the National Association
of Home Builders. Lumber companies are reporting
record profits.
Inside the mill, pine logs are stripped, cut, and sanded
into lumber over a production line that spans hundreds
of yards of belts, chains, and band saws spinning
at 100 miles an hour. The machinery roars and
whines, and the planks turn and tumble from one
stage to the next with the deep, constant clattering of
a supersized bowling alley.
As the empty warehouse attests, the lumber run-up
is great news for the sawmill, which the Robbins family
founded on the St. George River in 1881. Alden
Robbins runs the company with his brother and sister;
he went to high school with many of his employees,
and the sawmill managerâ€™s mom was his babysitter.
â€œItâ€™s going to allow mills to reinvest,â€ Robbins said of
the price surges. But itâ€™s also been tough to see shortages
irritate the companyâ€™s longtime buyers and force
locals to bail on a new deck or even a new home. â€œI
get asked that from customers who say, â€˜Why canâ€™t
you get me more product? Why donâ€™t you just build
another sawmill?â€™ â€œ
On the demand side, the lumber issue is relatively
straightforward: Americans are flush. Interest rates
are low. Wealthier households are buying pandemicPage
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proof second homes or diving into long-awaited renovations.
Younger families are trying to buy starter
homes and settle down. Many multifamily builders
have turned to timber as well, which is now commonly
used to frame five- or six-story buildings. All
that has created enormous demand for wood.
But the case of lumber supply is a little more perplexing.
True, shipments from Canadian forests, which
contribute about one-third of U.S. lumber consumption,
have been constrained by tariffs, beetle infestations,
and wildfires. But there is plenty of wood on
both sides of the border, and fast-growing pine in the
U.S. South is actually cheaper than itâ€™s been in two
decades.
Instead, the culprit is the decade of instability and low
prices that followed the Great Recession, when America
stopped building homes, leaving the lumber trade
out to dry. The stunted recovery stripped the industryâ€™s
crucial middlemenâ€”the mills themselvesâ€”to the
bone. Building a new deck is expensive now because
mills canâ€™t ramp up to meet the demand surgeâ€”or
wonâ€™t, nervous theyâ€™ll get caught with millions in underused
machinery when prices crash back to earth.
Nowhere more so than Maine, the nationâ€™s most forested
state, where wood and paper make up about 10
percent of the economy. The long-term decline of
New England paper mills has taken the bottom out of
the timber market here. Lumberjacks like Andrews
have nowhere to go with anything thatâ€™s not a grade-A
saw log; sawmills have nowhere to send the scraps
that remain when a cylindrical log is cut into rectangular
boards.
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Last spring, for example, a digester that processes
wood pulp at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, explodedâ€”
robbing both Samuel Andrews and Robbins Lumber of
a buyer for chips, branches, knotty wood, and the narrow,
tapering tops of the tree trunks. The millâ€™s Pennsylvania-based
owners have decided not to replace it,
and laid off more than 150 workers.
This symbiosis is important to the sawmills. Eric Kingsley,
an industry analyst in Portland, Maine, recently
helped a large company study the possibility of putting
a sawmill in Maine. â€œThe big constraint wasnâ€™t workforce,
it certainly wasnâ€™t log supply, it was â€˜What do we
do with all these chips?â€™ Because if another paper mill
closes, are we going to be able to move these in 20
years?â€
Robbins Lumber has a solution, but it wasnâ€™t cheap.
Two years ago, the family committed $30 million to an
on-site biomass power plant that uses the millâ€™s waste
chips to generate power for thousands of local
homesâ€”and enough heat to dry its own white pine
boards in a massive kiln building before they are
shipped to market. The expense of that project is part
of the answer to the question: Why not build another
sawmill?
Robbins in front of
the piles of chips
left over from the
mill. Many will wind
up inside the
companyâ€™s on-site
power plant.
The other lies inside the mill. Step inside and see the
bewildering array of technology thatâ€™s required to turn
a log into lumber. A metal detector, for one thing:
Maineâ€™s eastern white pines may be a century old by
the time they are felled to make boards, so a tree might
contain hooks, nails, or bullets that can gum up the
works. More expensive are the computer scanners that
make instantaneous decisions about how to slice a
plank into marketable boards for maximum value,
based on the location of cracks, knots, and other imperfections;
the calculations and the cut are made in a
fraction of a second. There are 30-pound saws that
shape the planks
Here and there, as we duck, twist, and climb our way
down the production line, the ruddy-faced Robbins
snatches a board from a conveyor like a grizzly bear
pawing a salmon from a stream, to show me up close
the work of all his machines. Itâ€™s this technology that
marks the real impediment to a quick expansion to
meet lumberyardsâ€™ big offers. A new sawmill could take
years to be completedâ€”and the last lumber price
spike, in 2018, came and went in half that time.
I was lucky to visit when I did: Next week the plant will
shut for maintenance. Yes, in the middle of an all-time
spike in lumber prices. â€œYou need good times to reinvest
to keep yourself competitive,â€ Alden Robbins says.
New blades, new belts, new gears. Thatâ€™s what a good
year of sales makes possible. But a new sawmill? For
an industry thatâ€™s been in the dumps for 10 years, that
will take more than a run on Home Depot.
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Rather than Business Relief
Senior Director of Budget & Tax Research
Adam Schuster
Pritzker borrowed during the pandemic rather than making responsible budget decisions. So
Illinoisâ€™ federal relief must repay debt rather than helping businesses recover like other states.
The U.S. Treasury Department on May 10 issued guidance
derailing Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzkerâ€™s plan to use federal
financial help to pay down debt issued to cover budget deficits
during the pandemic. Pritzker and state Comptroller
Susana Mendoza now say they plan to use higher than expected
state revenues to pay off the debt. But money is fluid,
so he is essentially taking money from one pot rather
than another. The practical effect is exactly the same as if
the state had used federal aid to pay down the debt.
Treasury will send Illinois a total of $8.1 billion for state
government, $2.7 billion for metropolitan cities including
$1.9 billion for Chicago, $2.5 billion for counties, and $742
million for smaller cities.
The interim final rule released by Treasury â€œprecludes the
use of [Fiscal Recovery Funds] to cover the cost of debt
incurred prior to March 3, 2021.â€ Initially, Pritzker and
Mendoza indicated they would seek changes to the rule to
allow their original plans to move forward, saying it was
the most fiscally responsible use of the funds.
Federal borrowing should not have been necessary
Illinois was the only state to rely on emergency borrowing
from the Federal Reserve to shore up its budget during the
pandemic. Pritzker borrowed $1.2 billion in June 2020 with
a 3.83% interest rate and a one-year repayment term. After
voters rejected Pritzkerâ€™s proposed progressive income
tax hike in November, he secured another $2 billion
loan with a 3.42% interest rate to be repaid over three
years.
Mendoza told Treasury that Illinoisâ€™ borrowing â€œwas essential
for the continued performance of government servicesâ€
during the pandemic. Because the state could have balanced
the budget with just two fiscally responsible policy changes,
pension reform and flat funding, this clearly is not the
case. Additionally, 49 other states were able to manage
their budgets without borrowing from the Federal Reserve.
But Mendoza is right to say using the funds for repaying
the debt is â€œentirely consistent with the spirit of the American
Rescue Plan.â€
Mitigating economic harm from the pandemic, replacing
lost government revenues, and supporting the funding of
essential services are core purposes of the fiscal recovery
funds. Directly or indirectly, repaying short-term borrowing
incurred during the pandemic fits each of these purposes.
Remaining federal funds should be used to bolster
economic recovery
Bond Buyer reports Illinois still owes $2.175 billion to the
Federal Reserve and $600 million to other state accounts.
That would still leave about $5.4 billion in federal funds for
other uses.
Pritzker in his February budget address endorsed the principle
of reserving a share of federal aid for business relief. He
has yet to propose specifics and is currently pushing nine
tax increases, mostly on businesses, worth at least $932
million. In fact, the most recent update from the governorâ€™s
budget office shows he is counting only nearly $1.5 billion
in â€œrevenue enhancements,â€ indicating additional tax
hikes could still be on the table. The governor had previously
backed a plan to withdraw pandemic tax relief from
around 440,000 small businesses.
Before considering what type of economic relief Illinois
can provide to businesses, a logical first step would be to
avoid imposing additional harm. Federal aid and higher
revenue projections mean lawmakers should reject all of
Pritzkerâ€™s proposed tax increases to ensure businesses are in
a position to create jobs and grow wages in the postpandemic
recovery. Illinoisâ€™ 7.1% unemployment
rate remains higher than the nation and the Midwest.
Additionally, the state should use federal funds to replenish
the unemployment trust fund emptied during the pandemic.
If it doesnâ€™t, it will have additional federal loans to repay
with interest. It also risks automatic unemployment insurance
tax hikes on businesses that current law mandates until
the trust fund is refilled.
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Illinois will need to use much of the aid for debt service,
directly or indirectly. Failing to pay off that debt would
harm Illinoisans. But that debt only exists because of a fiscally
irresponsible budget adopted during the pandemic.
Illinois needs significant fiscal reforms to be able to continue
providing essential services in the long run at a tax burden
that doesnâ€™t ruin its economy. Most important among
these is a constitutional amendment to allow true pension
reform. A five-year fiscal plan from the Illinois Policy Institute,
Illinois Forward, provides lawmakers with a road
map to success.
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Wells Fargo Home Mortgage
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First Mid Bank & Trust
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Barry Buchman - Arrowhead Building Supply
Matt Warren - Carrollton Bank
Coy Mullenix - CMI Construction
Michelle Rauk - Eagle Flooring
Mark Fulford - Fulford Construction
John Snapat - Fulford Home Remodeling
Steve Macaluso - Halloran Construction
Jon Elder - Henges Interiors
Robert Dee, Jr. - Homes by Deesign, Inc.
Scott Blumberg - Huntington Chase
Ken Diel - Kerber, Eck & Braeckel
Mike Lippert - Liese Lumber
Josh McDermott - J.T. McDermott Remodeling Contractors
Derek Brandmeyer - Light Brite
Jason Huelsmann - New Tradition Homes
David Padgett - Padgett Building & Remodeling
Ron Padgett - Padgett Building & Remodeling
Scot Lehr - Quality Installation & Home Improvement
Jeff Schmidt - RLP Development
Sue Schultz - Sandberg Phoenix & von Gontard P.C.
Mike Rathgeb - Spencer Homes
Mark Vogt - Vogt Builders, Inc.
Jim Vernier - Village of Shiloh
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