Vin, the builders association in my neck of the woods is designed pretty much for the glad-handing arrogant bunch that every community suffers. I'll have nothing to do with them. They've fired every ethical board member that tries to straighten them out, resulting in an almost impossible to reconcile set of books.
They use it to legitimize questionable businesses and business practices, like price fixing and bill rigging. My wife was their bookkeeper for a
very short time. Once their fundraiser/promotions manager found that she couldn't get away with skimming dues and donations, the wife was told she "wasn't experienced".
Be wary of these outfits, including chambers of commerce. Some are good, some are great, unfortunately some are like the one here; Take your money, play kissy with you, then hire
out of state trades for every city project...
The wholesale corruption and sewer-level ethics in some of these organizations are only reflections of a larger national issue, and it's widespread, accepted and ignored to where there's no policing of it, no authority with the time to pursue it...
But then again, I can only address the local situation. I've been turning people away from day one, and the builders ass. and chamber have had no part of it, nor will they benefit.