February 15, 2011

CVBBA Member Update

We appreciate the responses to our recent survey!  The results indicate a preference for consolidating and expanding our CVBBA 2011 Fall Conference in September.

There was also indication that a majority of the responders are planning to attend at least one IBBA conference in 2011. The IBBA Spring Conference is scheduled for May 10-14 in New Orleans. It should be a worthwhile conference, and since we are not having one in March, we hope to see you there.

We will be having a CVBBA 2011 Fall Conference, and will be actively working to formalize the agenda in the next few weeks.

Preliminary format:

1.       (2) days of IBBA courses

2.       Additional CVBBA networking opportunities

3.       A designated CVBBA membership meeting for open discussions of issues and direction

4.       Workshops

Please forward any suggestions for the CVBBA 2011 Fall Conference. Just reply to this email (admin@CVBBA.com) with your thoughts. We would like to schedule our IBBA Course offerings as soon as possible, and we welcome feedback from the membership.

Please see: http://www.ibba.org/Brokers/Education/tabid/71/Default.aspx#350 for a current catalog of IBBA courses. We will be checking with IBBA to see if there are any new or updated courses being added to the catalog for 2011.

We will notify all CVBBA members in April as we finalize planning for the CVBBA 2011 Fall Conference.

Bob Watson

CVBBA President - 2011