FROM THE PRESIDENT
MIKE HOLT | LEGACY PARTNERS
It's a wrap on my busy year as AAMD president
W
ith the arrival of June each year, I find myself
looking forward to the start of many wonderful
things. Things like Father's Day, the start of
summer and it’s long evenings, my birthday, warmer weather,
vacations and the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors. This year,
however, June marks the end of something, my term as AAMD
president. I pause to reflect on the past 12-months and hold
my breath. What have we achieved? Did we leave a mark? Did
we set the stage to create future leaders and a strengthen the
association?
I’m proud to say we did. We really did, and on so many levels.
During my installation I challenged my fellow volunteers
to reengaged, participate, educate and push the association to
new levels of success. I asked for more classes, more leaders,
more Ambassador’s to spread the word and more recognition
for the many great things our membership and Association do
for our community.
You pushed our event attendance up 8.7% over the 3 year
average, nearly 1,000 more people attended AAMD events. Our
Committees added new events like Lease-A-Rama and Charity
Bowling to an already amazing line up including Conferences
like Economic Conference, Business to Business, Chili Cookoff,
and TechCon to name a few. Maintenance Olympics alone saw
an increase of over 500 people this year. Tributes amazed over
1,300 people and won an Excellence Award from the National
Apartment Association.
Education participation rose 29% with 1,630 students
participating in numerous classes taught by countless
amazing membership volunteers. Our MAP (Maintenance
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Apprenticeship Program) continues to create opportunities
and careers for future maintenance personnel. To date over
130 individuals have participated with an outstanding 89%
graduation rate. We look to the future with the creation of
property management courses with Arapahoe Community
College and Maintenance classes taught at the association office
in the new office expansion called HOME Room (Hands on
Maintenance Education) .
Over 20 new Ambassadors were added to an already small
army and visited more communities than ever before and
created stronger engagement with our onsite teams.
We created Apartments Giving Back to showcase all
the charitable contributions our management and supplier
companies do for the community and added Phil, our
Philanthropic Bear as a mascot. We continue to donate time
and resources in support of Family Homestead, and are
supporting and pushing LIVE Denver, an initiative to help with
the affordable housing crisis. We rolled out Housing4Colorado.
org, a website to assist with education for renters, the community,
and provide a resource for all on housing solutions.
On the political front, we created additional committees to
educate the public and our elected officials on housing needs and
when necessary to combat bad legislature on behalf of the state
and its residents.
As my term slowly winds down I take pride in what our
Association has accomplished and in what you as an association
have achieved. After a brief pause to reflect, I exhale and look
forward with pleasure to June and the year to come.
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