Message from the president.

By the time you are reading this, we will have started a new year and it will be 2019. Along with the transition from one year to the next also comes a barrage of predictions on the key things that will happen in the coming year, from sports to movies to politics to the stock market. A few of these predictions may be right on while many others will undoubtedly prove to be far from reality. Many prognosticators have written about what they believe will happen in the business world in 2019 and the predictions seem to be all over the map. One common theme, though, appears to be the expectation that there will be some type of economic slowdown in the coming year. While there are differing opinions on the root causes and what the level of severity will ultimately be, there does seem to be a consensus that many organizations will experience this challenge in some way in the near future.