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This past summer, the Sellenriek family welcomed the
entire PCCA to the Lake of the Ozarks, a place Steve calls
his “favorite place on earth,” for the 2014 Mid-Year Meeting.
Following a wildly successful meeting with the most attend-
ees in more than a decade and the most meeting sponsors
ever, the lake is now one of the association’s favorite places,
as well. Everyone enjoyed the lake’s beauty and all the fun
activities, and they also benefited from the program Steve
helped organize. The educational sessions featured speakers
who provide valuable work for Sellenriek Construction and
whose lessons were very pertinent to other PCCA members.
To close the Mid-Year, the Sellenrieks opened up their lake-
front home to the entire membership for a truly memorable
all-day party and barbecue.
Bringing New Energy to PCCA
Bob Sellenriek attended his first PCCA convention in 1998 in
Santa Barbara, Calif., at the invitation of fellow Missouri con-
tractor and PCCA Past President, the late Larry Libla. “Larry
called and said we’d have a good time and learn a lot, so we
went,” Bob said. And they haven’t stopped going since. “We
turned it into a family vacation. Over the years, we’ve met a
lot of good people--good contacts and good friends.”
Steve’s first convention was the following year in Naples,
Fla., when Ken Trawick was president. He’s been to every
convention since and has missed just two mid-year meetings.
Steve was asked to join the PCCA Board of Directors in 2003,
and in 2004 President Steve Spears asked him, Tony Briggs,
and Matt Trawick to help create PCCA’s Young Construc-
tion Professionals (YCP) Program, which flourished and has
since grown into the association’s Leadership Development
Program (LDP).
Steve takes pride in the development of the LDP and the
PCCA Project Manager Academy, and he finds them very
useful in his work. “I use things daily that I have learned in
these programs,” he said. “They are probably the best things
that PCCA offers, and they are just not used by enough of
our members. I am really proud of how Heath has taken over
with the education program and where it is headed.”
Steve is also prominent in PCCA’s outreach efforts to feder-
al government agencies and industry groups. In recent years,
Steve has traveled (at his own expense) to Washington, D.C.,
several times to meet with the Rural Utility Service, the Labor
Department’s Hour and Wage Division, and the NTCA.
“When Steve joined the Board, he hit the ground running,”
said PCCA Executive Vice President Tim Wagner. “He never
treated it like a title; he treated it like a job, and he’s worked
really hard at it. The energy that he and Heath bring to PCCA
is special, and it’s very rare.”
Bob Sellenriek sees parallels between
his sons’ involvement in PCCA and in
Sellenriek Construction. “We needed
young people in PCCA, made an effort
to get them more involved, and now it’s
working. It’s like with our company--we
have the young people involved who are
going to take us to the next level.”
And like the people at Sellenriek Con-
struction, their clients, and the people
of Jonesburg, the people at PCCA are far
better off due to the hard work of Steve
Sellenriek. And we’re having a good
time, too!
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