ISSA Member,

Your ISSA Board of Directors and I would like to thank you for your commitment and participation as a member of ISSA!

I hope this letter finds you well as we hit the home stretch of another busy and successful year. Your ongoing support and involvement in ISSA initiatives and activities are what drive continued growth and advancement for our industry. Our newly updated mission statement, “ISSA empowers industry, partners, and owners to cost-effectively and sustainably preserve and maintain pavements,” summarizes our association goals as we proceed into the future of the pavement preservation industry.

Member participation continues to be the key to our continued success! I would ask that you find ways to participate in as many ISSA activities as possible.One of the best values in membership is networking with and getting to know your fellow members by taking part in as many association meetings and activities as possible. Your association’s Board of Directors and committees decide how your association funds are spent and what initiatives we focus on. These groups are made up of other contractors and suppliers just like you who volunteer valuable time to help steer the efforts of the association and represent you.The best way to get the most out of your membership is to join in and help shape our plans for the future. Here are a few of the ongoing initiatives and the resources available to you:

• 2026 Slurry Systems Workshop – This workshop is the premier training and educational event in the pavement preservation industry. Registration is currently open! Your workshop committee has been hard at work updating and improving on an already stellar curriculum. If you have not attended before, please make plans to do so in 2026. To learn more and register, click here.
• 2026 AEMA-ARRA-ISSA Annual Meeting – All three associations will be meeting together once again to discuss and learn about the future of the pavement preservation industry and the current and future initiatives that drive it.Committee chairs from all 3 associations are hard at work preparing an engaging and interesting program. Regular registration ends January 30.
• AR DOT/FHWA/ISSA Web-based training – Arkansas DOT, FHWA, and ISSA subject matter experts have been meeting together with AP Tech to develop new web-based training modules for the various ISSA treatments and combination treatments. Once completed, these training modules will be a resource to teach best practices for all our disciplines to anyone involved in or interested in learning about pavement preservation.
• The ISSA Design and Inspection Manual for Slurry Surfacing Systems has been introduced as a mobile application that can be accessed easily on your phone or tablet. This is an invaluable resource for contractor field personnel, inspectors, and project designers, that can now be

  accessed easily in the field. This application is available to ISSA members through the “Members Only” portion of the ISSA website(https://slurry-manual.org/).

• ISSA representatives continue to meet regularly with our PPRA partners to update the RoadResource.org website with current information and improvements to the user tools. The goal is to keep this information and site as current and user friendly as possible, so that it can continue to be a valuable resource that promotes and improves the use of pavement preservation treatments.