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Here you can find information about the different types of membership, find out about upcoming events and sponsorship opportunities as well as find member-only resources such as meeting minutes and agendas.  Be sure to sign up on the site to get access to the most amount of resources.

Also, check out our facebook and twitter pages - links are available on the website.

Happy Election Day!

It's election day - or at least the start of it!

We have two slots available on the 2013 Board of Directors for our chapter.  We ask that every member exercise their right to have a say in the direction our chapter will head in 2013.

We have some magnificent candidates running for office this year!

Members can cast their vote by going to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FZKXM56 before midnight November 14, 2012.

The winners of the election will be announced on November 15, 2012 at the Annual Meeting held at UNF's University Center.  Please preregister for the meeting my going to www.caijaxannual.eventzilla.net.  Once you register online you will be emailed a paper ticket.  Bring this ticket to the meeting to receive an EXTRA raffle ticket!

2012 Annual Meeting | November 15, 2012

It's that time of year again - annual meeting and election time!  Our Annual Meeting is scheduled for November 15th, 2012 at 8:30am at the UNF University Center.  We will be announcing the newly elected Board of Director Members, discuss our holiday social, roll out our 2013 chapter sponsorship options and more.  

Registration and payment for this annual meeting can be done at anytime between now and 8:00 am November 15th online by visiting caijaxannual.eventzilla.net. Once you register online a ticket will be emailed to you - please print this ticket off and bring to the registration table at the meeting to receive an EXTRA raffle ticket!  You can still register at the door as well but we highly encourage you to register online as it is easier for us to get a head count this way.  Please remember that only cash, check or money order are accepted at the door at this time.

This year there are two positions which will be opening up on our Board of Directors.  If you are interested in running for the Board of Directors please send an email to caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com as soon as possible.  All who wish to be considered for the Board of Directors must submit their intent to run via email by midnight on October 14th and answer the following questions:

Name:

CAI Number:

Membership Type:

Brief explanation of why you would like to be on the Board of Directors of the Jacksonville Metropolitan Chapter of CAI:

Voting for the 2013 Board of Directors will begin Monday October 15th at 8:00 am.  Voting will be done online as well, via a secret ballot.  I will email the link to this survey to all members on Monday, October 15th.

If you have any questions please contact the Chapter Executive Director, Stephanie Peluyera by email at caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com. 

Financial Panel Discussion | September 20, 2012

Join us on Thursday, September 20, 2012 at UNF's University Center for a Financial Panel Discussion. There will be a CPA specialist, Reserve specialist and a Community Association Volunteer Leader.

Registration and breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m. and the meeting begins at 8:30 a.m.

• Reserve Specialist - Will discuss the benefits and use of a reserve study in the budget process and the advantages of using a professional for getting a reserve study done.
• CPA Specialist - Will discuss budgeting as a planning tool and basics for board and managers to track the progress of association financial position; line items based on association responsibilities and allowing for bad debt.
• Community Association Volunteer Leader - Will discuss the process the Board goes through in planning the association budget.

Registration Form in PDF - Printable Version

Registration Form in PDF - Form to Fill Out

Registration Form in Word

2012-2013 Chapter Directory

This year in our printed Members Directory, we are offering ad space for all members, and discounted upgrades to all Chapter Sponsors. Below are the dates that the commitments, payment and artwork are due, as well as the pricing and specifications. 

• Commitments - due Thursday, September 20, 2012
• Payment - due Thursday, October 4, 2012
• Artwork - due Thursday, October 18, 2012

Along with the below pricing for non-Chapter Sponsors and Chapter Sponsors, there is premium advertising space available. There are only two available pages left. The back inside cover and the back outside cover, both full page. It is based on first come, first serve, for a cost of $750. If you are already a Chapter Sponsor, you will then pay the pro-rated price. Email caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com for any questions.

2012 Ad Space Pricing and Specifications (for non-Chapter sponsors)
Full Page Ad	$375	4.5” wide by 7.5” tall (Note: Portrait layout only)
Half Page Ad	$250	4.5” wide by 3.75” tall (Note: Landscape layout only)
Quarter Page And Business card Ads	$150	Quarter Page Ad: 4.5” wide by 2” tall Business Card Ad: 3.5” wide by 2” tall (NOTE: Landscape layout only)

2012 Ad Space Pricing and Specifications (for Chapter sponsors)
Platinum Sponsors	Full-page ad (free)	Upgrade to premium full-page ad for $375
Gold Sponsors	Half-page ad (free)	Upgrade to premium full page ad for $500 or to general full page ad for $125
Silver Sponsors	Half-page ad (free)	Upgrade to premium full page ad for $500 or to general full page ad for $125
Bronze Sponsors	Quarter-page or business card ad (free)	Upgrade to premium full page ad for $650, half page ad for $100 or general full page ad for $225.
Management Company Sponsors	Quarter page or business card ad (free)	Upgrade to premium full page ad for $650, half page ad for $100 or general full page ad for $225.

July Meeting | CEU Course

Our Chapter is so excited to be offering our first Continuing Education Course, which is worth two CEU credits. The meeting/course will be held on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at UNF's University Center, which is located at 12000 Alumni Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32224. If you need directions, please visit their website here for detailed directions.

Our speaker is David Rottman, with Coker, Schickel, Sorenson & Posgay, P.A. His practice is focused on real estate litigation, community association law and creditor's rights.

As always, we are looking for Business Partners who want to give away a raffle prize. If you and your company want to give away a raffle, please email Kara Marcellus to let her know.

If you wish to register to attend this meeting/course or if you have any questions., please email Kara Marcellus, Chapter Executive Director, at caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com, listing all names of people wishing to attend.

2012 Trade Show

We are excited to be partnering with Property Manager Pages for our 2012 Trade Show. It will be held on May 16, 2012 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Morocco Shrine Center, located at 3800 St. Johns Bluff Road, Jacksonville, Florida 32224.

Last year's attendance was excellent, but this year we are aiming for even higher attendance. This year's theme is MONOPOLY. More correspondence to come on how the game will be played.

You can sign up for your booth online. Visit PM-EXPO Jacksonville and on the upper right, click on RESERVE A BOOTH. After you fill out the form online, you can click SUBMIT and it becomes an email with an attachment. Click SEND to ensure your application is recieved.

For any questions, please contact Property Manager Pages at (954) 532-9194.

• Who should attend? Commercial property managers, residential property managers, condominium association and homeowner association managers and board members.
• Meet qualified vendors and professional service organizations providing information about their company.
• Education opportunities and seminars: legislation effecting community associations and rentals, maximizing occupancy, lending, digital marketing, ROI enhancement and professional designations.
• Free 1-on-1 advice about Florida Friendly Landscaping, bed bug control, state-of-the-art plumbing solutions, mold prefention and remediation, lock-box deposit systems and other important topics.

March Breakfast Meeting

Topic:

Chief Meteorologist, Mike Buresh, will present on Hurricane & Disaster Preparedness

When:

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Where:

UNF's University Center

12000 Alumni Drive

Jacksonville, FL 32224

Time:

8:00 a.m. breakfast begins

8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. - meeting

All attendees will receive a sample Hurricane & Disaster Preparedness plan as a take-away. For questions, please contact Kara Marcellus at (904) 312-3890 or caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com. 

Annual Meeting

CAI Jax Metro Chapter - Annual Meeting

When: December 22, 2011

Where: Omaha Steakhouse on Baymeadows Rd.

Time: 12:30 p.m.

Our Board will be having the Annual Meeting on December 22, 2011. Everyone is invited to come out and attend the meeting. Lunch will not be provided, but IS available.

Casino Night

We are so excited to be having our first Casino Night.

It will be held on December 1, 2011 at UNF's University Center. Click the following link to access the Christmas "Casino Night" Invitation. This event is open to all Board Members, Managers, Business Partners and their guests.

For any questions, contact Kara Marcellus either by phone at (904) 312-3890 or by email at caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com.

M:100 Outcome

This past week our Chapter held its first Professional Management Development Plan, or PMDP, course. The M:100 course is the first course offered in the PMDP course plan. It is The Essentials of Community Association Management. Upon completion of this class, all students have the option of applying to take the exam to obtain their CMCA, Certified Manager of Community Associations.

Holding this class is a monumental step for our Chapter, and we are quite pleased with the result. We had 13 students in attendance, most of which are currently members of our CAI Chapter.

Next year we have two courses scheduled:

• M:100 - April 12-14, 2012
• M:201 - August 23-24, 2012

We look forward to holding those classes and growing our Chapter even more!

Meeting Reminder:::August 18, 2011

Can you believe it is almost the end of July? That means one thing...our meeting is next month.

We just sent out the reminder update for our meeting which will be on August 18, 2011 at UNF's University Center. We have 3 speakers that will be discussing the following: benefits of a reserve study during the budget process, the statutory requirements of the 718 and 720, and budgetting as a planning tool and basis for board and managers to track progress of association financial position.

We are expecting a great turnout at this meeting! So, if you have not sent in your registration form, please do so to caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com. And remember, if you attend, your name gets entered into our drawing for one of many prizes! Then for each guest you bring, your name will be entered an additional time! So come out, network and win some prizes!

Summer Fun

I hope that everyone is having a great summer so far! If we could get rid of the smoke here in the Jacksonville area, I believe we would all be a bit happier!

Be on the lookout at the beginning of July for our 3rd Quarter Newsletter! As we continue to have a quarterly newsletter, we will be adding more information. We are always going to be looking for articles that are relevant to our industry that we can use in our newsletters. So please contact me if you would like them to be in our newsletter.

Then on August 18, we will be having our 3rd quarterly discussion. This one is still in the works topic-wise, but we are going to feature a CPA, Reserve Study professional and an attorney. The Board and myself are greatly looking forward to this panel discussion. We hope that all of our members can attend!

Also in August is the deadline for registration for the M:100 course that is going to be held in September. Check out the calendar of events tab for more information in regards to the course.

I look forward to seeing you all at our next Chapter meeting!

-Kara Marcellus

Insurance Panel Discussion Outcome

The meeting went absolutely great thanks to all of our Members and their guests! A big thanks goes out to our three speakers from our meeting on Thursday, Roland Mastandrea from Connect America Insurance Agency, Chuck Bushong  from Bushong Insurance Associates, and John Fletcher with Fletcher Stein. All three topics of D&O, General Liability and Property were great, and brought up some interesting points of views.

We also had two meeting sponsors, Community Management Concepts of Jacksonville, Inc. and All Weather Contractors, Inc. CMC Jacksonville sponsored the cost of all our Homeowners and Board Members, and All Weather sponsored the meeting cost of all our Managers.

With each meeting our Chapter has, we are becoming more and more successful! It is so great to have so many of our Members in attendance. With each meeting our Membership is getting bigger!

Check out our Calendar of Events tab for more information on our upcoming Chapter events.



Insurance Panel Discussion - May 19, 2011

If you have received the Insurance Panel Discussion brochure and then the newsletter, you will notice the cost shows 2 different prices for Board Members and Managers. The Insurance Panel Discussion is FREE to all Managers, Board Members and Homeowners.

We have 3 great insurance agents that will be speaking at this panel discussion. Chuck Bushong with Bushong Insurance Agency is the first speaker. Roland Mastandrea, with Connect America Insurance Agency, is our 2nd speaker. And, our final speaker is John Fletcher with Fletcher/Stein.

As stated above, the meeting is going to be FREE to all Managers, Board Members and Homeowners because our sponsors for this meeting are paying your way in! So be sure to give them a big thanks at the meeting!

We look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks!!!

M-100 Course – We are pleased to announce that we have a date set for the Professional Management Development Program’s (PMDP) M-100 course! It is going to be held Thursday, June 2 through Saturday, June 4, 2011. The course will be held at the Jacksonville Marriott at 4670 Salisbury Road, Jacksonville, FL 32256.  The course instructor is Pam Bailey. The course registration form can be found on our website at under the Documents tab. If you have any questions, feel free to contact as at caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com. We are looking forward to a great turnout!!

Things to come for our Chapter!!!

This week has been an extremely successful one for our Chapter! The Board met earlier this week in regards to the upcoming year, and we have so much planned! Our next meeting will be held at the University Center again. The topic and speakers will be announced soon!

For those of you who don't know, our Chapter has grown to over 100 members! We aren't even through our first full year either. In addition to a couple meetings planned for this year, we are nearly done reviewing our sponsorship packages we are going to offer pro-rated for April 1 through December 31.

So, be on the look out for announcements for our upcoming meetings and our sponsorship packages! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at caijaxmetrochapter@gmail.com.

Legal Panel Discussion Outcome

There was so much time and planning involved in making the 2011 Legal Panel Discussion possible. But, February 3 came and it was much more successful than we could have hoped!! There were 77 attendees, of which about 30 were Board Members. We count that alone as a great success!

A BIG thanks goes out to our 4 legal panel attorneys. Missy Turra from Holland & Knight, Aaron Gordon from LM Funding, Richard Levin from Condo Defects Law Group and J. David Davila from Clayton & McCullough all did an amazing job speaking on collections, developer transition, construction defects and covenants enforcement. This was not possible without you!