A 2026 Election Committee was formed to campaign for three new better-qualified Board Candidates.
Vote for "The Transition Team". We will return power from the BOD to the Unit Owners.
2026 Board Member Candidates
For a better Jupiter Bay, please vote for the following candidates in this year's election (Click on name to retrieve Candidate Information Sheet):
| Picture | Name | Unit # | Phone # | |
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Deirdre Sullivan | E-305 West | (516) 835-3299 | ddsully353@gmail.com |
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Susan Guthrie Hershman | D-208 East | (516) 508-6405 | sguthrie917@gmail.com |
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Paul St. Clair | D-207 East | (585) 730-2612 | Paul.St.Clair@Comcast.net |
The Transition Team's Platform
- Financials
- Reduce maintenance fee increases by eliminating unnecessary and wasteful expenditures. More effectively utilize the Association's attorneys.
- Provide realistic budgets and stay within budget. Reduce the need for special assessments.
- Provide more transparent financial reporting so that owners know how and where their money is being spent.
- Obtain approvals for all major expenditures at open Board Meetings.
- Board Meetings/Decisions
- Hold regular open Board meetings adhering to Florida statute requirements.
- Assure open Board meetings for all major decisions with opportunity for owner feedback and discussion. Provide statute-required notice periods for these meetings and eliminate House Committee decision-making meetings.
- Improve Board Meeting minutes fully documenting discussions and Q & A's.
- Provide video conferencing (Zoom) alternative for all board and owner meetings. Improve Zoom attendee interface.
- Communications & Responsiveness
- Improve homeowner lifestyle with a more-responsive and owner-focused Board.
- Assure empowered owner-participative committees with separate budgets, as necessary (e.g., landscaping).
- Increase owner access to official Association records.
- Coordinate and unify all decisions and events to unite the East, West, and Villas into one cohesive unit.
- Ensure open owner communications with frequent bulletins, newsletters, and website updates. Make Association website easier to navigate,
- Answer homeowner inquiries in a courteous and expeditious manner. Endeavor to seek out and address homeowner issues and concerns.
- Partner with homeowners to make Jupiter Bay a more enjoyable and friendlier community.
- Staffing & Maintenance
- Perform regular preventative maintenance to extend the life of the Association's capital assets.
- Better utilize maintenance fees to improving Jupiter Bay's common areas and facilities (grounds/landscaping and buildings).
- Meet regularly with the property management firm to more fully rely on them for proper maintenance and quality staffing. Assure proper skills, training, performance feedback and tools to be most effective.
- Planning
- Maintain and follow the Association’s Strategic Plan to assure a cohesive and targeted future for our residents.
- Provide improved project planning, management, and reporting.
- Work with Twisted Tuna staff and management to fully utilize restaurant facilities and assure that Association member needs are addressed without compromising our rights to quiet and peaceful enjoyment of our residences.
- Governance
- Fully fund reserves according to SIRS requirements.
- Assure adherence to Florida statutes and the Association’s governing documents.
- Update Jupiter Bay's governing documents, addressing Rules & Regulation, Declaration, and Bylaws issues.
- Update the Association's Financial Policy to reflect new procedures and accounting changes.
Embracing Board Member Standards
- General Standards: Shall undertake only those responsibilities and assignments that he/she can reasonably expect to perform with professional competence. Shall exercise due professional care in the performance of his/her duties.
- Integrity & Objectivity: May not knowingly make an untrue statement of a material fact or knowingly fail to state a material fact in order to achieve any measure of personal gain. All decisions and representations must be made with the best interests of the Association in mind.
- Conflict of Interest: May not use his/her position to enhance his/her own financial status through recommendation of vendors, suppliers, or contractors. Any situation that may appear as a conflict of interest must be disclosed in writing to the Board of Directors.
- Gratuities: Must discourage the acceptance of gifts, entertainment, or other favors from existing or prospective clients, contractors, vendors, or suppliers. Cash gifts of any amount are unacceptable.
- Use of Association Funds: May not use any funds being held for Association business for personal use.
- Related Entities: Must disclose any engagement of a company or individual related to any member of the Board of Directors in any way. This disclosure must be made in writing and approved by the Association for the board member to remain active.
- Limitations of Practice: If engaged in the practice of another profession, shall not perform such other services for the Association while serving as a board member, if the performance of such services is likely to result in a conflict of interest, real or perceived.
- Attendance at Board Meetings: Any member who misses three consecutive meetings of the Board of Directors will be removed from the Board.
Following Board Member Model Code of Ethics
Community Associations Institute (CAI) developed the following Code of Ethics for board members. This model code is not meant to address every potential ethical dilemma encountered by a community association board member but is offered as a basic framework that can be modified and adopted by any common-interest community.
Board members should:
- Strive at all times to serve the best interests of the association as a whole regardless
of their personal interests. - Use sound judgment to make the best possible business decisions for the association,
taking into consideration all available information, circumstances and resources. - Act within the boundaries of their authority as defined by law and the governing
documents of the association. - Provide opportunities for residents to comment on decisions facing the association.
- Perform their duties without bias for or against any individual or group of owners
or non-owner residents. - Disclose personal or professional relationships with any company or individual
who has or is seeking to have a business relationship with the association. - Conduct open, fair and well-publicized elections.
- Always speak with one voice, supporting all duly-adopted board decisions even if
the board member was in the minority regarding actions that may not have obtained
unanimous consent.
Board members should not:
- Reveal confidential information provided by contractors or share information with
those bidding for association contracts unless specifically authorized by the board. - Make unauthorized promises to a contractor or bidder.
- Advocate or support any action or activity that violates a law or regulatory requirement.
- Use their positions or decision-making authority for personal gain or to seek
advantage over another owner or non-owner resident. - Spend unauthorized association funds for their own personal use or benefit.
- Accept any gifts—directly or indirectly—from owners, residents, contractors or suppliers.
- Misrepresent known facts in any issue involving association business.
- Divulge personal information about any association owner, resident or employee
that was obtained in the performance of board duties. - Make personal attacks on colleagues, staff or residents.
- Harass, threaten or attempt through any means to control or instill fear in any board
member, owner, resident, employee or contractor. - Reveal to any owner, resident or other third party the discussions, decisions
and comments made at any meeting of the board properly closed
or held in executive session.
Dispelling False Narratives
The purpose of this article is to clarify the positions of the Transition Team Candidates (Susan Guthrie Hershman, Deirdre Sullivan, and Paul St. Clair).
Our position on major issues:
- Self-Management: We will not return to self-management. A board can be more effective when property maintenance and staffing are provided by a property management firm. This provides a clear division of responsibilities where each can focus on its individual roles and responsibilities. Input from multiple sources results in better decisions.
- Concrete Project: Our position on the Concrete Remediation Project is to continue the project unless owners in any of the remaining four associations (West D, West E, West F, and East A & B) vote unanimously to change or end it. Custom Group’s contract allows for changes to the project’s scope.
- Electing Rigging: We do not believe in attempting to rig an election as the current board is doing by favoring certain candidates. This includes shady board member replacements, inappropriate use of official Association emails, one-sided candidate meet & greet session, inaccurate information in president's farewell address, using yellow highlighter to emphasize qualifications of specific candidates over others, or misspelling an opposing candidate’s name.
- Skills & Experience: We put our skills and experience up against any of the other candidates. The three of us have the knowledge, experience, and integrity to make a positive difference at Jupiter Bay. Our combined ownership of Jupiter Bay units is 62 years, with two of us here for over 25 years. We are experienced in leadership, financial management, vendor negotiations, condo law, contracts, customer service, engineering, and construction. Two of us were previous board members. We all have extensive business experience. Two have owned and operated successful small businesses, and the third has held senior-level positions in major corporations.
- Part-Time Members: We believe a successful board does not need to consist of only members who live here full-time. Modern technology and improved communication via text messages, email, and Zoom allow members to interface with unit owners and collaborate from anywhere. All Jupiter Bay boards have had some part-time members, including the current board.
We would welcome your vote for a more approachable and effective board and a better Jupiter Bay.
Susan, Deirdre, & Paul
Part-Time BOD Members
Pillars of our Campaign
- Honesty & Integrity
- Take Responsibility for the Association’s current state including actions taken by prior administrations.
- Access the Association’s current state and report findings to the people
- Serve as an open book board with no hidden agendas.
- Provide rationale for all actions.
- Seek unit owner input enabling more thoughtful and consensus decisions.
- Break down the “us or them” mentality.
- Be a coach and team leader.
- Legally and ethically act in the best interests of association members.
- Put members’ priorities above board member priorities in making legal, financial, vendor selection, property maintenance, or other decisions.
- Preserve trust and good faith.
- Solicit input from the association members whom they represent.
- Exercise sound business judgment, follow established management practices, and conduct business in a transparent manner.
- Do not threaten unit owners with attorney letters and litigation warnings.
- Create a participative community environment.
- Graciously accept criticism and complaints as a means of improving leadership.
- Communications
- Use every opportunity to communicate with association members.
- Provide regular, as a minimum quarterly, and timely newsletters and bulletins. Newsletters should clearly communicate factual information to help owners understand the association’s progress and accomplishments.
- Welcome and educate new members of the community—owners and non-owner residents alike.
- Encourage input from residents on issues affecting them personally and the community.
- Rely on knowledgeable committee members to provide important services to the condominium owners, augmenting board member capabilities.
- Make it convenient for members to access official association records.
- Inform owners on how the Association is structured, how it's being run and how their money is being spent.
- Bring all important association matters to board meetings for open discussion among the board members and unit owners.
- Fiscal Responsibility
- Exercise cost control and be accountable for spending within budget.
- Maintain or reduce fees, improving fiscal management, and cost controls.
- Seek cost-saving opportunities.
- Reduce special assessments.
- Obtain unit owner input on proposed spending.
- Bring all non-budgeted proposed expenditures to board meetings for discussion and approval.
- Provide a business case for major expenditures.
- Follow normal project management principles as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI).
- Make appropriate and reasonable arrangements, when needed and as feasible, to facilitate the ability of individual homeowners to meet their financial obligations to the community.
- Clearly disclose the current status of all major projects – percent of completion, moneys spent to date, spending variance to plan, number and size of change orders, etc.
- Transparency
- Disclose open book financials with simplified summary information.
- Promote board members and unit owner discussions at open board meetings.
- Track and make available project progress, change orders, and progress payment disclosures.
- Provide unit owners with business case information for major expenditures.
- Approve all non-budgeted expenditures at board meetings.
