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2021 Supporting Partners Showcase...........Inside Front Cover 2021 Management Company Chapter Champions................. 2 From the President..................................................................... 3 Membership Matters.................................................................. 4 From the Chapter Executive Director....................................... 5 Surfside Tragedy Lessons & Alerts............................................ 7 Annual Conference: What's to Learn?...................................... 9 Annual Conference: Who's to Visit? ....................................... 11 Congrats on New Credentials................................................. 23
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On the Cover Getting’ out and about again! More of us are enjoying our home state for summer vacations than ever before. From the beaches to the mountains to hundreds of gems in between, what's not to love about NC! For inspiration, check out www.visitnc.com - you'll be wowed by settings like this one along the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Julian Price Memorial Park. Photo credit: VisitNC.com n
President Chris Chaffin, CMCA®, AMS®, PCAM® Kuester Management Group, Davidson chris@kuester.com President-Elect Richard Parris, CMCA®, AMS® Community Association Management Limited, Charlotte rparris@communityassociation management.com Secretary Bill Bittenbender Brunswick Alliance of POA's, Southport billbitt42@gmail.com Treasurer Andrew Bateman, CMCA®, CIRMS® TriSure, Raleigh abateman@trisure.com
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Dennis Abbott (Chapter delegate) FirstService Residential dennis.abbott@fsresidential.com Andrew Bateman TriSure Corp. abateman@trisure.com Chris Bruffey CommunityPLUS Div. North State Bank cbruffey@northstatebank.com Gordon Corlew St. James Plantation POA gcorlew@aol.com
Board Members
Derek Greene Community Association Management, Ltd. dgreene@communityassociation management.com
Immediate Past President Hope Derby Carmichael, CCAL Fellow Jordan Price Wall Gray Jones & Carlton, PLLC, Raleigh hcarmichael@jordanprice.com Alina Cochran, CMCA®, AMS®, PCAM®
Brooke Hoff, CMCA®, AMS®, PCAM® PPM, Inc., Raleigh Brooke@ppmral.com
The Community Associations Institute provides valuable resource program education and advocacy to preserve, protect and enhance community associations. The NC Chapter is one of the largest of 60 chapters worldwide.
Cynthia Jones, Esq. Sellers, Ayers, Dortch & Lyons, PA, Charlotte cjones@sellersayers.com
We work to inspire professionalism, effective leadership and responsible citizenship– ideals reflected in communities that are preferred places to call home.
Neale Turlington, CMCA®, AMS®, PCAM® CEPCO, Wilmington nturlington@cepco-nc.com
Chapter Executive Director and Editor: Leslie C. Blum, CAE For editorial and advertising submissions info: news@cai-nc.org
Bill Bittenbender (Chapter delegate) Brunswick Alliance of POAs billbitt42@atmc.net
Virginia Davis York Properties virginiadavis@ yorkproperties.com
alins.cochran@fsresidential.com
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Paul Mengert – Chair (Chapter delegate) Association Management Group pmengert@amgworld.com
Adam Beaudoin, Esq. Ward and Smith PA, Wilmington amb@wardandsmith.com
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Legislative Action Committee
John McInerney (Chapter delegate) Towne Properties john.mcinerney@ towneproperties.com Tina Frazier Pace, Esq. Secretary (Chapter delegate) Hatch Little Bunn LLP tfpace@hatchlittlebunn Tammy Sanderford Treasurer PPM Inc. Tsanderford@ppmral.com Tim Sellers (Chapter delegate) Sellers, Ayers, Dortch Lyons, PA tsellers@sellersayers.com Harmony Taylor, Esq. Black Slaughter & Black, PA htaylor@lawfirmcarolinas.com
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