Linda Miller, community services manager for Bonita Bay Community Association, has earned the Professional Community Association Manager designation, the highest professional recognition available nationwide. The Community Associations Institute grants the designation to those who specialize in community association management and meet specific training requirements and professional criteria. Miller is one of only 108 members in Florida to hold the PCAM designation.
In addition to successfully completing advanced course work, a PCAM candidate must be a Certified Manager of Community Associations and Association Management Specialist, have at least five years of experience in community association management, complete a case study and comply with a professional code of ethics. Miller’s case study subject was Celebration, the master-planned community developed by The Walt Disney Company.
Miller joined Bonita Bay as resident services administrator in 1999. She was promoted to community services manager in 2001 and manages the office as well as the staff responsible for the care and upkeep of common areas throughout the 2,400-acre Bonita Bay community. She holds a State of Florida Community Association Managers license and is a member of the South Gulf Coast Chapter of the Community Associations Institute.
The Community Associations Institute is a dedicated to fostering vibrant, competent, harmonious community associations. For more than 30 years, the institute has been the leader in providing education and resources to the volunteer homeowners who govern community associations and the professionals who support them. A community association operates as a government, community and business, making it a specialized type of organization.
Bonita Bay, an Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence recipient, is the flagship community of Bonita Bay Group. More than half the community’s 2,400 acres is devoted to open space, including lakes, nature-preserve areas and 12 miles of biking and walking paths. Residents enjoy three waterfront recreational areas within the community and a private beach park on the Gulf of Mexico. They are eligible for membership in Bonita Bay Club, which has two clubhouses, an 18-court tennis and swim center, a new fitness center and 90 holes of championship golf, including three Arthur Hills-designed courses within the community and two Tom Fazio courses, which provide a pure golf experience nearby.
Bonita Bay was included among Travel + Leisure Golf’s top 100 golf communities in America in 2008, LINKS Magazine’s 2006-07 and 2007-08 lists of America’s 100 Premier Properties and Golf Connoisseur’s 2007 list of the top 40 golf communities in America.
Residents also are eligible for social or boating memberships in The Marina Club, with a full-service marina with storage for 420 boats, waterfront dining, and social, educational and travel activities.
For a limited time, Bonita Bay Group, developer of Bonita Bay, is underwriting golf membership incentives at Bonita Bay Club and boat membership incentives at Bonita Bay Marina.
Residential sales are under way for luxury high-rises being built along Estero Bay by The Lutgert Companies. To learn more about the High-Rises at Bonita Bay, visit the Premier Properties Sales Center at the entrance to the community on U.S. 41 in Bonita Springs, call 866-314-2838, or log onto www.BonitaBayHighRises.com.
Linda Miller, community services manager for Bonita Bay Community Association, has earned the Professional Community Association Manager designation, the highest professional recognition available nationwide. The Community Associations Institute grants the designation to those who specialize in community association management and meet specific training requirements and professional criteria. Miller is one of only 108 members in Florida to hold the PCAM designation.
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