President’s Message BY BRIAN MUNK

Happy New Year!

I want to take this time to thank everyone that was able to make it to this year’s conference. We had a very good turnout and I enjoyed networking with old friends and meeting new ones too. If anyone has any ideas on subject matter for next year’s conference, I would gladly welcome you to send your ideas to the main office. We look at and evaluate all suggestions to strive to make a better conference for everyone. We had a very good line up of speakers this year and I do hope to see everyone there next year. All of us on the board values everyone’s busy work schedules so next year, we are looking at moving the conference back a couple weeks to the first part of December.

Please mark you calendars for NNLA’s upcoming workshop on Jan. 23, 2020. This promises to be another great learning experience for the design field and the business side of operations as well.

I hope everyone had wonderful holidays in the company of family and friends. As we wind down 2019, safety is a very large issue on my mind. This time of year can become quite busy and stressful at times and I remind myself seemingly daily, to take the time to do the job safely as well as correctly.

With that being said, I want to wish upon everyone a safe and happy new year! I hope all of us got to spend some memorable time with our families and loved ones. It won’t be very long before the greenhouse plantings begin and soon after that, the first shipments of 2020 start to arrive and we get to begin a brand new year in this great and wonderful profession.

Best regard,

Brian Munk, NCN, NCA, NNLA President