Dear Friends, 
I am honoured to have been appointed your Executive Director in February 2025. 

We are a passionate group of condominium managers, associated professionals, students and volunteers who are dedicated to enduring change in the communities we service physically, financially and functionally. Our members strive each day to increase community engagement, promote fiscal health and ensure physical safety and longevity. 

Having worked to these ends both professionally for the entirety of my career and as volunteer, I believe that I contribute valuable insight to and knowledge of our daily struggles and can effectively participate in continuing best-of-class educational development, designations, advocacy, best practices and ethical standards. My heart is warmed by the warm welcome and congratulations I have received. 

Make no mistake, the challenges we face are greater than ever before. With changed economic pressures, we risk losing the gains we have achieved in ensuring reserve fund adequacy and the timeliness of required major repairs and replacements. Our landscape has become increasingly litigious, demanding a higher standard for controls, documentation and communication. At the same time, more condominium corporations are registered, while experienced, professional condominium managers, struggle to keep pace. In corporations where our value and professionalism would be most beneficial, the volunteer board members with whom we partner are often pressured to reduce costs oft times at the expense of long-term planning and sound fiscal management. 

Herein lies the opportunity: we can demonstrate value, knowledge and ensure that the voice of millions of condominium professionals and residents is heard by those who draft legislation, implement regulations and adjudicate tribunals. Our members are considered learned stakeholders in these processes. 

We will need your help. As we move towards greater advocacy, we need you and the communities you manage to join our calls to action, share with us the challenges you experience, and help us find ways to solve them. Looking back on our accomplishments in recent years, I am amazed at what we have accomplished together. I am excited about our shared future. Your dedication and passion are inspirational. 

I look forward to working with all of you. I can’t wait to see what we will accomplish together!  

Sincerely, 

Katherine Gow 
Executive Director, ACMO
 

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