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CONDO MEDIA

FR OM TH E CE D’S DE S K

The Ofﬁcial Publication of CAI New England
CHAPTER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Claudette Carini
CAI NEW ENGLAND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Paul V. (Pete) Garrett, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, President
Frank A. Lombardi, Esq., President-Elect
Janet Aronson, Esq., Vice President
Wesley K. Blair, III, Treasurer
Robert Keegan, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, Clerk
Scott Wolf, CMCA, AMS, PCAM
Paut T. Carroccio, P.E., CMCA, AMS, PCAM
Andrew J. Costa
Jared McNabb, CMCA, PCAM
Barbara Reilly
Beth Sullivan
CONDO MEDIA INC. BOARD MEMBERS
Jared McNabb, CMCA, PCAM, President
Wesley K. Blair III, Vice President
James Connolly, Treasurer
Ellen A. Shapiro, Esq., Clerk
Richard E. Brooks, Esq., Director
Claudette Carini, Director
Jack Carr, P.E., RS, LEED-AP, Director
Richard Churchill, Director
COMMITTEES
Attorneys’ Committee
Mark Einhorn, Esq.
Mark Rosen, Esq.
Banquet Committee, Chair
Charlotte Scuderi
Conference & Expo
Beth Sullivan
Emerging Leaders Network (ELN)
Pamela Jonah, Esq.
Lauren Tedford
Golf Tournament
Tony Chiarelli
Paula Solemina
Maine Legislative Action Committee
Joseph Carleton, Jr.
Managers’ Committee
Patrick Holland, CMCA, AMS
Massachusetts Legislative Action Committee
Matthew Gaines, Esq., Marcus, Errico, Emmer & Brooks, P.C.
Membership Committee
Jared McNabb, CMCA, PCAM
Program Advisory Council
Jennifer Barnett, Esq.
Scott Wolf, CMCA, AMS, PCAM
Rhode Island Legislative Action Committee
Ed Allcock, Esq.
Frank Lombardi, Esq.
Vermont Legislative Action Committee, Chair
David Boston, CMCA, AMS
EDITORIAL
Claudette Carini ccarini@caine.org
SALES AND MARKETING
Natalie Springsteen nspringsteen@caine.org
ADVERTISING COORDINATOR
Jeanne Yanaro jyanaro@caine.org
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It Takes a Membership

his annual Financial Management and Reserves issue focuses on establishing a sound foundation for community associations and ensuring
their continued success into the future. Not unlike association board
members and homeowners, who are impacted, for better or for worse,
by decisions made by volunteer leaders as well as their community as a whole,
CAI and the New England chapter are shaped by its membership and members’ participation or lack of participation in the chapter. Associations and
CAI New England, along with their members, are shaped by the broader
community and the world in which we live.
Keeping pace with the needs of members in the face of changing economic
realities that over the past few years have included unprecedented job loss and
foreclosures, and maintaining a viable presence in an ever-changing day-today environment that incorporates more and more advanced technology from
smartphones and tablets to websites and online resources, has become the
challenge of member associations in the 21st century.
Chapter leaders including CAI-NE and Condo Media board members,
along with dozens of committee members and hundreds of other volunteers
throughout New England chapter states, keep their ﬁngers on the pulse of
the industry providing CAI-NE with the resources to develop and deliver new
member beneﬁts and services. Keeping pace with members’ needs, volunteers
have overseen the establishment of new committees like ELN (Emerging
Leaders Network), expanded program offerings in chapter states including Annual Condo Forums and Expos in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island, and more effectively utilized technologies such as online meetings
and conference calls to facilitate participation of members across a broader
geographic region. This fall, new developments will include webinar programs
and an expanded on-demand program offering.
As CAI and the New England chapter are shaped by you, our members and
readers, I challenge you to shape your community. Be involved, proactive, and
committed, keeping in mind the words of Theodore Roosevelt: “It behooves
every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary
importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who
does things.”

Sincerely,

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CONDO MEDIA • JULY 2013

Claudette Carini
Chapter Executive Director

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