Hello everyone! Looks like we are in the heat of summer with our hot dry weather!

Our June Golf Outing at Silver Lakes Country Club in Orland Park turned out to be a heated fun day with over 200 golfers attending! It was great to have so many nice raffle and auction prizes for the many winners! Thank you to all of our sponsors and Committee Members who participated in making this years golf outing so successful, it’s great to see everyone getting back to enjoying big social gatherings again! Be sure to check our photo gallery for some pictures of our fun day!

The next upcoming event will be a Builder Breakfast sponsored by Nicor Gas, to inform our members about possible gas bans and information on stretch codes. It will be held on August 2nd at 7:30 a.m. Location and further details to come soon!

Be sure to mark your calendars for the Autobahn racing event on Wednesday, August 24th, this is always a good time and SELLS OUT! When the registration opens up don’t wait to sign up or you may miss out!

After that, the Tour of Homes festivities will begin. The tour will “kick off” with our Kick Off Party on Thursday, September 15th. Location and further details to come soon but we are in need of sponsors NOW! so head over to sshba.com/upcoming-events and sign up for one. The tour itself will run the weekends of September 17th/18th and 24th/25th. We will also urgently need advertisers for the map we are putting together for the tour. Deadline to submit ads is July 15th so don’t delay on this either! You can also register for ad space at sshba.com/upcoming-events

On a more serious note, if you have not heard, on June 10, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law an amendment to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act making general contractors (or trade contractors that themselves have subcontractors) liable for the wages of their subcontractors’ employees. The new law is commonly referred to as the “wage protection act.” HBAI had been fighting against this bill since earlier this year but unfortunately it has been signed and is in effect as of the time of signature. You will find additional details of this bill on page 9 and we are working with our Government Affairs committee to bring more information to you in some way in the very near future.

In closing, I’d like to again remind everyone that we’re in a long term membership drive. Members can earn up to 4x the spikes and the SSHBA will earn as much as 2,000 for new members gained this year. We stand by our motto “Build With a Member” so if you work with anyone not a member, this is a great time to bring them in!

Thank you and God Bless you all

Brian Wille

On Wednesday, June 15th, the SSHBA hosted it’s Annual Golf Outing at Silver Lake Country Club in Orland Park. Approximately 250 people attended between golfers, sponsors and volunteers. It was a HOT day but despite the heat , everyone stayed hydrated and played the entire course and had a great time! Check out the photos of the day on the SSHBA Photo Gallery !

We would like to especially thank all of our sponsors and raffle/auction donors for helping to make this event the 100% hands down success that it turned out to be. Please be sure to say thanks if you see them!

Non-Staffed Sponsors-

Allegiance Insurance Services, Inc. , Barba Concrete, Inc. , Beechen & Dill Homes, Inc. , Castletown Homes, Inc. , Century 21 – McCatty Real Estate Services , Dykstra Home Services , J.G.S. Landscape Architects , M& M Affordable Plumbing , Mid-America Carpenters Council , Republic Bank , Searls Windows & Doors, Inc. , Wille Brothers Co.

Staffed Hole Sponsors-

Brakur Custom Cabinetry, Inc. , Cherry Creek Mortgage , Cooney Corso & Moynihan, LLC , Cutco Closing Gifts , General Shale Brick , Greater Illinois Title Co. , Illinois Brick Co. , John Greene Realtor , LP Building Solutions , Professional Women in Building Council , Searls Windows & Doors, Inc. , Seigle’s Cabinet Center, LLC , Tri-State Cut Brick & Stone , Velux USA , Woolf Distributing Co.

Cart Sponsor-

Hines Supply Co.

Beverage Cart Sponsors-

American Metro Bank, Beary Landscaping, Inc. , GAF , Hines Supply , and Marquette Bank

Breakfast Sponsors –

Edon Construction Co. Inc. , The Granite & Marble Depot , and Westlake Royal Building Products

Halfway House Sponsors –

Brian Wille Construction , Nicor Gas , and Schillings

Open Bar Sponsors-

Ferguson Kitchen, Bath & Lighting Gallery , Heartland Bank , and MAJESTIC Distributing, Inc.

Raffle & Auction Donations:

American Colony Homes– Cigar basket, Bears tickets, BBQ Party Package

Brampton Brick – Amazon Gift Card

Brian Wille Construction – Tommy Bahama Beach Basket

Caesarstone – Gift certificate to Oak Brook Hills & Champagne

Greater Illinois Title – Gift cards to Lettuce Entertain You & Champagne

JGS Landscape Architects, Ltd. – Florida vacation package

Parksite– Cubs tickets

SSHBA Board members – Booze Bucket

Sleeman Builders – Gift cards to Francescas Restaurants

Smart Wire LLC – Sonos wireless speaker & Charger

Didn’t this year just start? Did anyone else just realize that we’re nearly half way through 2022? Maybe it’s because we’ve been so busy at the SSHBA that it’s been hard to pay attention to how fast time is going?

Our Professional Women in Building Council (PWB) have had two fun events so far. First was a Happy Hour at Embers Tap House in Lockport and the other was a tour & brunch at Restoration Hardware in Oak Brook. The council is working hard to come up with more unique and exciting events for its members. Stay tuned!

April was a BIG month for the SSHBA with our Kentucky Derby Raffle. There were 150 people that attended the event at Harrah’s Casino and everyone had a blast! Our horse race winner was GITy-Up Princess sponsored by Greater Illinois Title Co. and the Grand Prize $2500 raffle winner was Dick Searls of Searls Windows & Doors, Inc! Congrats to all the winners… especially Jackie McShane, Best Hat & Joe Sambucci, Best Dressed Man! We had SO many awesome raffle prizes so congrats to all who won a prize as well!

Here at the SSHBA we like to keep momentum rolling…like on a train! May was our Train Crawl and it was a success! We had 35 people attending between those who rode the train and those who met us at the various establishments. Our event started at Little Al’s in Mokena, followed by The Station Pub & Eatery in Tinley Park and ending at MyGrain Brewing Company in Joliet. A good time was had by all!

There are plenty of other events scheduled for the last half of our year. Be sure to bookmark our events page Upcoming Events so you don’t miss anything!

Proposed Code of Conduct for SSHBA Members

We, as members of the SouthWest Suburban Homebuilders, dedicate ourselves to carrying out the mission of our organization. We affirmative agree that we will do the following, as a condition of membership in the SSHBA:

1.         Recognize that the chief function of SSHBA at all times is to serve the best interests of our organization and to aid the SSHBA in efforts to promote the use of qualified and competent builders and subcontractors with the highest ethical standards.

2.         Accept as a personal duty the responsibility to keep up to date on emerging issues and to conduct ourselves with professional competence, fairness, impartiality, efficiency and effectiveness.

3.         Respect the structure and responsibilities of the board, provide them with facts and advice as a basis for their making policy decisions, and uphold and implement policies adopted by the board.

4.         Conduct our organizational and operational duties with positive leadership exemplified by open communication, creativity, dedication and compassion.

6.         Exercise whatever discretionary authority we have under the law to carry out the mission of the organization.

7.         Serve with respect, concern, courtesy and responsiveness in carrying out the organization’s mission.

8.         Demonstrate the highest standards of personal integrity, dignity, truthfulness, honesty and fortitude in all our activities in order to inspire confidence in the building industry by units of local government and the general public.

9.         Avoid any interest or activity that is in conflict with the conduct of our official duties.

10.       Respect and protect privileged information to which we have access in the course of our official duties.

1. Strive for personal and professional excellence and encourage the professional development of others.

1. To hold paramount the safety, health and welfare of the public in the performance of professional duties.

1. To treat with respect and consideration all persons regardless of race, religion, gender, abilities, age, or national origin.

1. To engage in carrying out SSHBA’s mission in a professional manner.