August2017

LOOKING AHEAD LARRY THOMAS, PCAM | CAI-NJ CHAPTER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

T his year’s Senior Summit (this article was written prior to the event which is scheduled for Thursday, July 13th at the Renaissance at Manchester community) is focused on how our senior communities can minimize their physical risk and liability exposure. An excellent panel of industry experts has been assembled and will present up to date methods on how to best protect your community’s assets. If you were not able to attend, I will highlight the event in next month’s article. Our committees are rolling along nicely. Our manager’s committee and membership committee have put together short videos for their prospective memberships groups. The Manager’s video, “Manager Minute,” is a brief update on a current manager focused topic. If you’d like to see the man- ager’s video, it can be accessed at cainj.org/membership/ managers . The Membership Committee created a video to congratulate new members at their six-month mark. If you are a new member be on the lookout for your video to arrive by email. The Conference and Expo Committee is meeting monthly and is really gearing up for a top-notch event. Angela has sold out all the exhibitor booths. This is the earliest we’ve ever sold out. The committee revamped the educational sessions this year, we had so many great topic submissions, the committee decided to shorten the sessions and add two extra sessions. Details will be announced as soon as they are finalized. In the meantime, be sure to “Save the Date” for this year’s Conference and Expo — Thursday, October 18th from 9:30am to 3:00pm. The Business Partners Committee held its first “Meet-Up” of

"Our manager’s committee and membership committee have put together short videos for their prospective memberships groups." the year on June 7th at the Iron Bar in Morristown. 45 to 50 attended and had a great time networking and meeting some of our newer vendor members. The CAVL committee is always discussing ways to improve membership for our Board Members and residents living in our communities. They are currently coming up with a marketing plan for our CAVL members to attend our Conference and Expo. All of Jackie’s event committees are on top of their events. I know that the Awards Dinner, Spring Break, and Golf Committees did an outstanding job with planning their events. The recent golf outing turned out to be a great affair and we are receiving very positive comments from those that attended. Forsgate County Club does an awe- some job with our outing, which is the largest outing held there. Knowing Jackie and her committees, I’m sure the Olympics (under the direction of the FAST Committee) and the Beach Party will be just as successful. Please enjoy the rest of the summer. Every year they seem to go by faster and faster. Soon I will be talking about snow removal and ice control in my articles. Ugg. n

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