Candidates for new Board

Thu Nov 6 10:14:29 PST 2003

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:45:33PM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 13:37, Heather Stern wrote:
> >   I almost forgot to mention. the offices of President, Arch, and
> >   Treasurer are not filled in by election at the general meeting; 
> >   they're elected by the resulting Board at the investiture of our 
> >   new members, every year.  This year there are 4 openings for Board.
> >   We do have some candidates already.  We need more.
> 
> I'm completely unclear about this. These are positions that people run for, 
> and it seems that the members vote, but are you saying the board appoints 
> those who will be voted for?

Thanks for the question, Alan :)

The BayLISA membership at large is voting for enough board members to
fill out our current complement of 7 board members total.  We have 4
spaces on the Board to fill this year, which is comprised of 3 spots up
for normal re-election, and 1 seat vacated during the year due to life's 
pressures.

BayLISA members are voting for 4 people who will help guide the
organization's inner workings for a couple of years.

(The bylaws allow us to have a few more or less, but the total 7 has
served rather well for not having deadlocks, and for having enough
people to keep things all in working order without burning anyone out,
so it's been this way for a while.)

At the beginning the December Board Meeting all board members drop all
the officer-level titles, and it's up to the new Board who will be
President, Arch, Treasurer among themselves for the next year.  

Since these titles are picked among the Board, the BayLISA members are
sort-of voting for them too, but only indirectly...  which is what I was
trying to say, but I guess I just confused things :)

Hope that helps.

-* Heather Stern * Arch (secretary) BayLISA Board * http://www.baylisa.org/ *-