b'2019 Post WPMAEXPOCEOs Message continued250,000+ Legislative ActivityWPMAs involvement in legislative activity takes many forms. MONTHLY READERS * We are a link between the Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA), our national association, and our member-Thank you to ship. In addition, PMAA looks to us and our states for guidance in setting policy to govern the national association. Our influence our readers for within PMAA continues to increase due to the involvement of members of WPMA. Every WPMA state has an active PMAA Di-rector that sits on the PMAA Board. In addition, we have several making us the members serving on the PMAA Executive Committee. This year WPMA member Rick Reese, Senior Vice President of Kellerstrass Oil in Salt Lake City, Utah is serving as PMAA Western Regional #1 Fuels and Chair, Steve Clark with Genesee Energy in Seattle, Washington is Heating Fuels Committee Chair, and Brad Bell with Connell Oil Convenience in Pasco, Washington is serving as Brands Division Director. Head Office SupportNews Website! Within the WPMA Home Office we have several areas of focus. One of the most important is officer support. We understand our officers and directors are busy operating their own businesses. Our duty is to keep these dedicated leaders fully informed on as-sociation activities and to make their leadership as uncomplicated CURRENT RELEVANT as possible.News andInformation forEventsYOUR Industry WPMA has several publications and events critical to keeping our association members informed on petroleum issues, membership, and state events. The Weekly Update gives our members up to date information concerning their state events and federal legisla-tive issues. The quarterly WPMA News magazine is an integral part of our organization, providing articles to make our members more efficient in their daily business. The WPMA annual direc-tory provides key contacts to our members and associate mem-INSIGHTFUL bers, to help them network more efficiently, and help our marketer Contributionsmembers find the goods and services they need from our associate From NotableIndustry Experts members. And of course, the annual WPMAExPO brings the lat-est in timely educational topics, meaningful networking, and state of the art goods and services together in one place to benefit our POWERFUL entire membership.Weekly Updatesfor Better WPMA also administers the WPMA Scholarship Program, Decision-making awarding eight $4,000 scholarships each year to graduating high FUEL MARKETERSFUEL RETAILERSCOMMERCIAL FUEL school seniors, one in each of our WPMA states and one at-large scholarship to an associate member. To date we have awarded 220 Scholarships and over $730,000 to deserving students.Our partner insurance company, WMI Mutual Insurance and WMI TPA has a well-established reputation for efficient, courteous and accurate claims processing and has extensive access to national reinsurance companies for the benefit of self-funded and partially self-funded employer groups.As with any business, WPMA has some challenges, but we have Advertisers please contactgreat resources available to us, including our strong leadership, Bill Kaprelian at 262.729.2629 oractive members and dedicated staff. Working together, we can email BKaprelian@FMNweb.com succeed in making our association and industry stronger.www.FuelsMarketNews.com*As ranked by Alexa, an Amazon.com company S40www.wpma.com / Spring 2019WN19 Spring 17-48.indd 40 3/27/19 10:42 AM'