News for CMAA Leaders: January 2025

CMAA News

1. Five Club Management Professionals Achieve Certification
2. Nine Emerging Club Management Professionals Awarded 2025 James B. Singerling Scholarships
3. Listen to Let’s Talk Club Management, Episode 126: Capital Improvements Handbook: Having the Right People on the Bus and Episode 127: Hiring a True CFO

To Do

1. January 13: Register for the 2025 World Conference & Club Business Expo at Regular Registration Rates
2. January 28: Register for the Virtual Governance & Leadership Symposium
3. February 4: Online Voting for the 2025 Board of Directors and Bylaw Amendment Ends
4. Ongoing: Submit Your Chapter Photos and Announcements to goodnews@cmaa.org 

All Officers

Review CMAA’s Antitrust Guidelines

Has your Chapter leadership reviewed CMAA’s Antitrust Guidelines this year? Annually, your leadership should review the guidelines to ensure compliance. Many club and Chapter policies or programs that might be discussed at meetings or via other means including email, online discussion boards, or list serves raise issues of antitrust and trade regulation. These areas include:

• Prices, fees, or rates, such as discounts, costs, salaries, terms and conditions of sale, warranties, or profit margins;
• Membership restrictions, categories, and termination;
• Uniform terms of sale or contract provisions.

Review CMAA’s Antitrust Guidelines to keep your Chapter in compliance. As a Chapter officer, you should also ensure that your Chapter’s directors and officers insurance policy includes coverage for antitrust.

Also, if you have not already done so, please submit your 2025 Chapter Officers/Chairman Report.

Managing Directors

Thank you for following up with members who have yet to renew their 2025 national memberships. Those who did not renew were dropped from the National Roster. Please let lapsed members know that they can contact National Headquarters to receive their outstanding dues invoice and reinstate their memberships.

Club Foundation Liaison

The Club Foundation at this Year’s Conference

The Club Foundation raises funds throughout the year to support scholarships and grants that we give to CMAA members. In addition to fundraising efforts like annual giving, Giving Tuesday, membership renewal drive, and requests during events at the World Conference, The Club Foundation hosts two events during the annual conference. For 2025, those two events include:

• The Club Foundation Golf Tournament on February 4, at Westchase Golf Club. This event is sold out for 2025.
• The ClubLove 5K, on February 8, travels along beautiful Bayshore Boulevard and Hillsborough Bay. If you haven’t already signed up for the Club Love 5K when you registered for the Conference, you can modify your existing registration through the link provided in your confirmation email. Sign up by January 10 to receive the 5K official t-shirt for the event.

Communications/Public Relations Chairman

Reflecting on the 2024-2025 Theme

Annually, CMAA announces its annual theme at the Leadership/Legislative Conference. This theme reflects both the current conditions in the industry and aspirational goals to embrace. Our theme will be showcased in many ways throughout the year. In 2024, the decision was made to extend themes to two years to give Chapters the time to better integrate into their planning.

The 2024-2025 theme is There’s No Place Like CMAA.  

As the year begins, it is a great time to reflect on what this phrase means to you as a CMAA member and to your Chapter. How can you use your communication and public relations efforts to focus on these goals? Could you incorporate it into your storytelling in digital newsletters, social media, etc.?

For more ideas, please contact your official liaisons Melissa Low, CAE, Vice President, Communications and Advocacy, and Kyle Jennings, CAE, Director, Communications.

Legislative/Advocacy Chairman

A New Year for Your State Legislature

It’s a new year and many state legislatures are already back in session. CMAA monitors several trending issues, including:

• Wage increases and elimination of the tipped minimum wage;
• Pay transparency;
• Water and input bans and monitoring;
• Paid family and sick leave;
• Predictive scheduling; and
• Property tax changes.

Check out our grassroots website to access the latest in your state. You can also access legislator directories and learn more about the legislators representing your club and home.

Membership Chairman

Start the 2025 Recruitment Year Off Right

Congratulations on another incredible recruitment year in 2024! Let’s start the 2025 recruitment year off right! All new and rejoining members pay $500 for their first year of national dues. Please direct all prospective members to the online join form.

Professional Development Chairman

New Cybersecurity Staff Training Courses Now Available on CMAA’s Club Resource Center

CMAA’s Club Resource Center (CRC) course line-up now has five new cybersecurity training courses for you and your staff. They include…

• Cybersecurity Overview
• Workplace Security Basics 2.0
• Cybersecurity - Staying Safe Online 3.0
• Social Engineering 2.0
• Introduction to Ransomware 2.0

The CRC subscription brings you a broad scope of online interactive training courses for all your club’s staff. Contact Bob Gould for a full CRC course list or more information.

Research Chairman

Access the 2024 CMAA Research Projects

All the Research initiatives completed in 2024 are accessible to CMAA members. Visit the Best Practices Exchange in CMAA Connect to explore them. Login is required.

• 2023 Finance and Operations Report (Club Benchmarking Collaboration) – May 2024 Release
• CMAA Capital Improvements Handbook (Task Force Collaboration)- August 2024 Release
• 2024 Club Leader’s Perspective Report (GGA Partners Collaboration)- September 2024 Release
• 2023 Compensation and Benefits Report (Club Benchmarking Collaboration)- November 2024 Release
• 2024 Economic Impact Report (Club Benchmarking/NCA/Iowa State University/Florida Atlantic University/University of Florida Collaboration)

Student Chapter Liaison

Encourage Your Student Chapters to Book Accommodations for World Conference

Hotel room availability is extremely limited due to high demand. This is an unusual situation, making it crucial to act promptly. Specifically, rooms at the Embassy Suites are filling up quickly. 

We strongly encourage all students to finalize their event registrations and book their rooms at the Embassy Suites no later than the end of next week (by Friday, January 10). While we understand that many of you are on break, addressing this matter ASAP is essential.

Faculty advisors, please help communicate the urgency of the situation to your student members.  

If students do not book in time, the remaining rooms will need to be released to all conference attendees. 

Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Sumayah Arcusa with any questions or concerns.