Presidents Blog v.8 - Management Selection

Kingsgate! With the days getting shorter, and the sun getting lower on the horizon, we are approaching my favorite time of year… Fall. It seems like it has gone faster than ever considering the extraordinary circumstances we are all dealing with this year. As you can hopefully tell, the Board has spent the summer working hard on serving the community on multiple fronts. Please see my note below for some details on this. I will address the professional management selection process, describe the transition to our newly selected manager, and finally ask for some community volunteers to help us more forward. Professional Management Selection On Tuesday, August 18th we had our out-of-cycle board meeting to vote whether or not to select a management company to help with tasks in the neighborhood. This process started in May of this year and was as follows:

Professional Management Selection

On Tuesday, August 18th we had our out-of-cycle board meeting to vote whether or not to select a management company to help with tasks in the neighborhood. This process started in May of this year and was as follows:

The feedback the Board received was generally in favor of the move, with only a few members not wanting to see the change. I think that the Board vote of 7 in favor and 2 not in favor of full management likely accurately represents the feedback from the community.

Professional Management Transition

I believe the selection of NOVA is the right fit for our neighborhood and will frankly be a breath of fresh air in the community – I can tell you that they are already helping the board to be more organized and produce documents and structure that we have not focused on in decades. Finally, they are a local company with employees who live in the Seattle area and they understand us and our community well.