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LOOKING
AHEAD
LARRY THOMAS, PCAM
| CAI-NJ CHAPTER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
"The board, committees and staff
are always looking to create
educational opportunities
for all our members."
A
s we enter the final few months of 2017, I’d like
to write about a few of the successes we achieved
during the year. 2017 was another banner
year for our chapter, but a few items particularly stand
out (for me at least). We created a very strong pact of
dedicated Homeowner Leaders that have become very
involved in our chapter and attend most if not all of our
Homeowner Leader events. This includes our Legislative
Updates, the Educational Lecture Series held at our head-
quarters in Freehold, the Board Leadership Development
Workshop, the Annual Senior Summit, our Homeowner
Leader Roundtable, the Annual Conference and Expo and
the special program held at the Communities of Concordia
concerning the recently passed “Gordon Bill.”
I see many familiar faces at all of these events and
it’s great that they are invested enough in their roles as
board members to learn as much as they can, which in
turn will make them more effective community leaders.
Another program that has taken off and has proven to
be very effective is our “Coffee and Cram,” CMCA
study group. Our “Coffee and Cram” class is designed
to help our managers who have completed the M-100
class pass the CMCA exam. This program was orig-
inally administered by the CAI-NJ staff with help from
managers from the Managers Committee and Debbie
Pasquariello, CIRMS. One of the major sections on
the CMCA test pertains to the association’s insurance.
Debbie was brought in to specifically address the insur-
ance portion of the exam. The program was turned over
to the Managers Committee and they now run the class.
We’ve had over 50 managers take the class and sev-
eral of them have successfully passed the CMCA exam
and are now working to obtain their AMS designation.
Hopefully in a few years we will have a whole new
group of PCAM’s in our chapter.
These are just two examples of our successful programs
that we offer at CAI-NJ. The board, committees and staff
are always looking to create educational opportunities
for all our members. I’m sure we will add to the list in
2018.
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Check out the CAI National PMDP Schedule for 2018
on page 48 of this issue of Community Trends
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