Dec 2024

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rest of the board, and our chapter staff will do with this new tool at the chapter’s disposal! Additionally, we have begun bringing more events to northern New Jersey. North Jersey has the highest population density in the state and a wide array of common-interest communities (CICs) that can benefit from CAI-NJ’s offerings. The board prioritized northern New Jersey as an area to focus our marketing efforts to bring managers and homeowner leaders the many membership benefits CAI-NJ offers while also maximizing the value of the membership and sponsorship dollars spent by our business partners, many of whom are based in North Jersey. These The last change I will highlight in my final article as President is the upcom ing changes to the Annual Awards that were developed and adopted this year. This was a personal project that I tasked the chapter team with working on and, with the input from the board, am very happy with the results. To summarize, the votes for each award will now be split between the mem bership and a panel a, which will interview all the nominees for awards and -score each nominee. The scores will be averaged with the membership vote to determine the winners. The board also adopted a conflict-of-interest policy to ensure that members of the panel may not participate in the vote of any affiliated nominee. The goal of this new process is to make the awards more objective, ensure it celebrates active members of our organization, and elevate the gravitas of the awards for the recipients. As I conclude my year as President and my seven-year tenure on the board, I want to thank each of you for your contributions to our organization and to the industry at large. I am so proud of where we have come over the last seven years and know that the chapter is in good hands with Steve as the incoming President, Ryan as the President-Elect, our dedicated and talented Board of Directors, and Angela as our wonderful Executive Director with her fabulous team. The sky is the limit on what CAI-NJ can and will do for our membership and the industry at large and each of you are key parts of our continued success now and into the future. In closing, it has been one of the greatest privileges of my professional career to serve as President this year. Thank you for your trust and support and know that I appreciated every interaction, every word of encouragement, every idea, and every critique as I endeavored to lead our organization and leave it better than I found it. So, once again (and finally), thank you all for your continued engagement as members of CAI-NJ! Wishing you a safe, healthy, and happy holiday season! n “...I am excited to see how this develops over the next couple of years.“ efforts will continue, and I am excited to see how this develops over the next couple of years.

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