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CCI National Council Update
By Jamie Bleay, CCI-Vancouver President
As many of you know, I have been appointed by the CCI Vancouver chapter board to be the National council representative for 2011. In that capacity I am required to participate in teleconference calls and face to face meeting with the entire National council and the National executive of CCI to identify issues of concern with our Chapter, to learn about initiatives put in place or being developed by CCI National for use by our chapter to help it grow its membership, identify and appoint new volunteers to our board and our chapter committees, to market the CCI message as “your condo connection” and to improve the educational mandate of CCI Vancouver. On June 16 and 17 I attended and participated in several meetings with the remaining National council representatives and the National executive to listen to hear about the good things and not so good things that other chapters are experiencing, to find out what initiatives the CCI National committees have been working on in 2011 and how those initiatives can work to make our chapter bigger, better and stronger and to learn about the tools that CCI National is developing for use by our chapter. Some of these initiatives and tools include:
- A membership application template that better identifies the membership categories for our chapter members;
- A best practices manual that will assist our chapter with the production of membership reporting statistics, newsletter preparation and distribution, how to run efficient board meetings, a “how to “ guide for our various committees;
- Educational material for use by our chapter;
- The Ambassador program to help us with membership growth;
- Providing guest speakers from the National council and the National executive to attend our seminars;
- Financial assistance for any special projects/initiatives which our board thinks will improve and grow our chapter; and
- B.C. based exams available to lawyers, engineers and property managers who wish to obtain their ACCI (Associate of the Canadian Condominium Institute) designation. This designation, which will be available to our professional members, will confirm that the holder of the ACCI is an accredited and recognized professional member of CCI. The ACCI designation, once obtained, will be available to place on business cards, web-sites and letterhead of the professional who has obtained the designation.
There are more initiatives that are presently being developed by various committees and I will report on those after our next National council meeting.
Jamie Bleay
CCI-Vancouver President