What issues are important to you?
The AIA Releases a Call for Issues for the 2008 Legislative Agenda – >What issues are important to you?
To date, 2007 has been a very successful year for the AIA’s advocacy efforts, with significant progress on all of the AIA’s top priorities, from sustainable design to tax relief. Says Vice President, Government and Community Relations, Paul Mendelsohn, “Our successes in 2007 can be traced straight back to the call for issues we made to the membership last summer. Their ideas and commitment helped us craft a winning agenda that we unveiled at Grassroots in February and took to Capitol Hill.”Mendelsohn notes that of the three top priorities for the AIA in 2007, two of them – requiring new Federal buildings to meet the 2030 Challenge and extending the energy efficient commercial buildings tax deduction – have been passed by one or both chambers of Congress, while the third – supporting green infrastructure – was included in the House’s report on legislation passed in the spring. Adds Mendelsohn, “It is only with the support of our 80,000 members that the AIA can remain a credible voice before government at all levels.”
As the AIA prepares its legislative agenda for 2008, the Institute again wants to hear from its members about the issues it should consider the most important. As in past years, AIA leadership and staff will examine the feedback and match proposed issues to legislative and regulatory opportunities at the federal, state, and local levels for action next year, all leading to the launch of the AIA’s agenda at Grassroots 2008.Tell us what issues are important to you that you think the AIA should consider adding to the agenda for the 2008 legislative session. Link to the AIA’s 2007 Congressional issues agenda