Our Voice In Sacramento The time is right to reignite our PAC efforts – BY JENNIFER WADA
The CACM Political Action Committee (PAC) allows CACM to impact the
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magine for a minute that you’re a legislator: You are bombarded daily by thousands of interest groups competing for your attention. As a busy California community association manager, you can
empathize with how easy it can be (and even how necessary it becomes) for a legislator to dismiss various issues, viewpoints and even entire industries. A legislator – much like a community manager – only has so much bandwidth. But, with an estimated 50,223 associations impacting aggregate
state legislative process by supporting political campaigns and legislation that protects the practices, services and careers of community managers in California.
annual revenues of $11.2 billion, the California common interest development (CID) market is one industry legislators shouldn’t gloss over. With the second year of the legislative session upon us, now is a prime time for CACM and its members to build collaborative relationships with legislators statewide.
Learn how you can make a donation to CACM’s PAC Fund at www.cacm.org/ legislation/pac.html.
CACM’s PAC provides a means to solidify relationships with legislators who will understand, value and fight to protect the community management industry. Not only is the landscape changing in the housing market and the
CACM manager members will also have the chance to make a donation in conjunction with their 2016 membership dues.
management industry, but the majority of lawmakers are brand new. In 2015, 72 out of 120 legislators started their first term with little to no Continued on page 38
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