A Message from the President

Hello TAPPA,

Happy New Year!

I’m writing this month’s letter from my hotel room while attending APPA U: Institute for Facility Management. I highly recommend it! This event was highly attended by over 300 people from North America (yes, even Canada) participating in not only APPA U, but the Leadership Academy and T3.

As promised, I can finally let everyone in on my big news. TAPPA will be hosting its first ever regional drive-in for Facility Managers on Feb. 3 from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. We will be discussing emergency preparedness and how it impacts our campuses. The event will be held in Waco at the TSTC campus:

TSTC Aerospace Center Board Room
605 Operations Rd
Waco, TX 76705

Be on the lookout for an email providing more information along with rsvp instructions.

At this time, the Board is reviewing the near 40 presentations and will be choosing approximately 18-20 of them for this year’s conference, which be held in Denton and co-hosted by UNT and TWU. Click the link for event details:

https://tappa.net/event/2023savethedate

Again, I want to remind everyone of our awards program. We have three different areas where you can recognize someone within your organization or maybe that special business partner. The three categories are:

• Facility Management Distinguished Service Award
• Business Partner Distinguished Service Award
• Stars Across Texas Award

You can reach out to me, wls1@txstate.edu or David Reynolds at dreynolds@f-w.com with any awards questions.

Sincerely,

Wm. “Shorty” Schwartz, President, TAPPA