Public Architects Committee

I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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Michael,

This proposal has been the perennial white whale PAKC has been chasing for years.  The rationale that was received as to why not was that if AIA National gave a dues break for public architects, then every other interest group within AIA would be asking for the same break. One way to parse it might be if they get a dues break, membership would increase and make their goal of 100,000 members (though the current total includes Emeritus, Assoc AIA, Hon AIA, etc.).  With increased emphasis on city architects, this proposal could be a stimulus towards achieving that corporate goal.

I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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Michael,

This proposal has been the perennial white whale PAKC has been chasing for years.  The rationale that was received as to why not was that if AIA National gave a dues break for public architects, then every other interest group within AIA would be asking for the same break. One way to parse it might be if they get a dues break, membership would increase and make their goal of 100,000 members (though the current total includes Emeritus, Assoc AIA, Hon AIA, etc.).  With increased emphasis on city architects, this proposal could be a stimulus towards achieving that corporate goal.

I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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Michael,

This proposal has been the perennial white whale PAKC has been chasing for years.  The rationale that was received as to why not was that if AIA National gave a dues break for public architects, then every other interest group within AIA would be asking for the same break. One way to parse it might be if they get a dues break, membership would increase and make their goal of 100,000 members (though the current total includes Emeritus, Assoc AIA, Hon AIA, etc.).  With increased emphasis on city architects, this proposal could be a stimulus towards achieving that corporate goal.

I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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Michael,

This proposal has been the perennial white whale PAKC has been chasing for years.  The rationale that was received as to why not was that if AIA National gave a dues break for public architects, then every other interest group within AIA would be asking for the same break. One way to parse it might be if they get a dues break, membership would increase and make their goal of 100,000 members (though the current total includes Emeritus, Assoc AIA, Hon AIA, etc.).  With increased emphasis on city architects, this proposal could be a stimulus towards achieving that corporate goal.

I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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Thanks Jim, I understand your neutral position. I was also a Public Architects Committee member and PIA chair when I was a public architect in a county government.  When I was a public architect, in architecture practice and now in retirement. I still carry the passion and torch for this issue when and where I can.  It is because I believe AIA member public architects can significantly improve public sector development by being inside a public client's organization and being able to impact and lead capital program decisions and capital projects.

In respect to history, I attached a PDF to share some history from almost 25 years ago.  I hope anyone who reads this takes a look. It is a briefing to the AIA execs in 2001 during a Grass Roots to John Anderson who was President at the time. These issues are still applicable. The question is if AIA wants to solve this and if they do, when and how AIA initiates a process that solves the concerns expressed then and now.

So, if not now - when? The mayor's connection can be the spark. This issue merits AIA national leadership consideration and action to follow-up with actionable effort with the city mayors and I would add county commissioners as well. The Public Architect's and interested members should back check in the near future how AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, and AIA President Kimberly Dowd really do reach out and start a collaborate with the mayors.

Just sharing my passion for this topic,

Michael

I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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I found it very interesting that at the AIA & Mayor's meeting recently held that AIA's EVP/CEO Lakisha Ann Woods, CAE, and AIA President Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, led a delegation to the 92nd annual U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) June 20-23 in Kansas City, Mo., delivering the message that architects and mayors should be partners for progress. 

From a recent AIA article about this, the AIA was told by mayors they would like an architects' database to use for recruiting architects to sit on board and commissions and to help with major projects. Mayors shared that their biggest challenge in collaborating with architects is funding. AIA leaders met individually with more than 15 U.S. mayors and connected with hundreds of other municipal leaders to listen and learn of their challenges and offering solutions from the architect's perspective.

I recommend that the AIA leadership create a Public Architects membership rate specifically for those architects that work in a public agency.  Many, if not most agencies, especially at the city and county level do not pay the high annual dues.

I have been advocating for this for almost 20 years since I was involved with the older Public Architects "PIA."  The committee at that time was able to get leadership to bring it to the board in an agenda item. It died there. Seems the practitioners that make up a majority do not care so much to create a special dues structure for licensed, public architects.

I hope the current leadership takes action and follow's up to that conversation at a mayor's conference.

Link to Article:  Mayors, architects unite at U.S. Conference of Mayors | The American Institute of Architects (aia.org)

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Michael Katzin, AIA
Johns Creek, GA
Member - Johns Creek Planning Commission
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