Contributing Writers


Bridget Darrow is the Landscape and Maintenance Director for Trilogy at Redmond Ridge. With 12 years of landscape experience and an educational background in forest restoration, she brings her expertise to you in this month’s article about Firewise USA. Often found at the park watching her daughter play


fast pitch softball, being outdoors is a both family event and a passion.


Paul Grucza, CMCA, AMS, PCAM has been an industry practitioner for over 30 years holding numerous prestigious positions within CAI including Institute President, Inaugural Chair for the APCM Board, CEO-MC Retreat Chair, Education Committee Chair, Ethics Panel Member for both CAI and CAMICB, Chapter President,


an accomplished author for CAI penning and editing three books for CAI. As Director of Education and Client Satisfaction for CWD Group, Inc., AAMC he brings his many years of skill, association involvement and enthusiasm to the Pacific Northwest. Paul discusses planning for the 21st century board in this issue.


Cameron (Cam) Hazen CMCA, AMS


is a community association management professional with over 30 years in condominium/homeowner association and facility management. He has worked with all types of associations from four unit condos to mixed use buildings to luxury high rises to HOAs of several hundred single-family


homes. He currently is the Principal of Condo Consulting Services, LLC., an independent consultant to condominium and homeowner association boards including self-managed associations. He has been an expert witness in litigation and mediation matters. Cam is an active member of WSCAI and currently serves on the Made for Managers Day Committee. Together with Jerry Ringenberg, he brings us the article “Keys, Access Devices and Lock Boxes.”


Melissa Musser, CMCA, AMS


brings us the article, “A Place for My Stuff.” As the Suburban Growth Practices Director with Trestle Community Management, Melissa focuses on developer and declarant community formation through transition to owners for homeowner and master Associations. As an elected City Councilperson


for the City of Des Moines since 2010, she chairs the city’s Environment Committee and brings her extensive knowledge of plat management, low impact development standards and surface water management to the clients she serves. Melissa is part of the Education Committee and in her spare time she is an avid marathon runner. By marathon, she means Netflix marathons that she enjoys with the love of her life that she met at a WSCAI Business Partners Social. So you could say that Association Management, truly is her whole life.


Allison Peryea, Esq.


is a shareholder attorney at Leahy Fjelstad Peryea in Seattle, Washington. Her law firm almost exclusively focuses its practice on serving community association clients.


Allison’s practice includes litigation, covenant enforcement, and general counsel assistance to clients. She is a member of


the WSCAI Communications Committee and a former editor of the WSCAI Journal. She is also a humor columnist for national website Above the Law. Allison teams up with Bennett Taylor in this issue to discuss how to handle repairs that cross property boundary lines.


Jerry Ringenberg, AMS


is the Building Manager of Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue, a luxury high-rise next to the Pike Place Market. In this issue, Jerry collaborates with Cam Hazen to bring us the article “Keys, Access Devices and Lock Boxes.” He has extensive experience of on-site work and portfolio management. In his


free time, he enjoys outdoor cooking and is most often found doing home improvements to his house on Bainbridge Island.


Bennett Taylor, Esq.


is an associate attorney at Leahy Fjelstead Peryea. He lives in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle with wife Lindsay, their new daughter Sloane, and his cat, Peanut. Bennett co-wrote the article on property boundary issues with Allison Peryea in this issue.


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Michelle Leary Chapter Lobbyist Kathryn Hedrick Layout & Design Jane Rial Rial Marketing Communications


2018 WSCAI Board of Directors President


Alicia Graham, CMCA, AMS, PCAM CWD Group, Inc., AAMC


President-Elect


Karen McDonald, CMCA, AMS, PCAM Association Reserves WA, LLC


Vice President


Tony Rafel, Esq. Rafel Law Group PLLC


Secretary


Jeannie Helton, CMCA, AMS Agynbyte LLC


Treasurer


Amy Clements, CIRMS, ARM Community Association Underwriters 800.228.1930


Directors Ferdinand Boyce Royal Crest Condominium


Jackie Davis Fischer Restoration & Fischer Plumbing 206.499.8099


Linda Hanson Hawthorne Hill Condominium


Chelsea Webster, CMCA, PCAM SUHRCO Residential Properties LLC 425. 455.0900


Committee Chairs Business Partners CA Day Communications Education LAC


Stacey Krynsky Max Martin


Dianna Kaspar, CIC, CIRMS Jackie Davis


Robert Guyott, Jr., CMCA


Community Outreach Shane Lewis, CMCA, AMS Jackie Roethel


Lynn Logan, CMCA, AMS, PCAM Dennis Boyd


Theresa Torgesen, Esq. Beth Schwartz, CMCA, AMS


Law Day Made for Managers Day Paul Grucza, CMCA, AMS, PCAM Managers Only Meetings Nicole Lemons, CMCA Membership


Bryce Kennedy Social Events


Jeremy Stilwell, Esq. Toni Hahn, CMCA


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