It will be Hussey’s task to smooth over with members the board of director’s 2001 master plan to bring together ACCA and its affiliated chapters to join into a single federation. Effective Jan. 1, 2003, contractors belonging to ACCA are to join at all levels available: national, state, and local. According to ACCA president and ceo Paul Stalknecht, this move will impact more than half of ACCA’s national contractor members who currently belong only at the national level.
At the association’s 34th annual conference, held here recently, Hussey made it clear having one federation will enable ACCA to focus on its core mission, to become “the essential partner for contractor excellence. After being introduced to the strains of Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s song “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” and emerging on stage next to a Harley-Davidson motorcycle (the contractor has an extensive personal collection of the cycles), Hussey told conference attendees, “There’s a rumor that ACCA’s changing. After what we’ve seen at this year’s conference, wouldn’t you say it’s for the better?”