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Grex > Coop > #343: Nominations for the 2014 Grex Board of Directors | |
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glitch
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Nominations for the 2014 Grex Board of Directors
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Nov 8 19:55 UTC 2013 |
Nominations are now open for the Cyberspace Communications, Inc. Board of
Directors. In accordance with Article 4, Section d of the Bylaws, nominations
will close on November 15 and an online election will be held December 1
through December 15. Terms of office begin on January 1, 2014, and are two
years in length. Four seats are up for election this time around.
Grex membership is a requirement for serving on the Board. Any current member
of Grex who has paid at least 3 months' membership dues and meets state of
Michigan eligibility requirements may run for and serve on the Board.
The term of one board members have one more year to run: TS Taylor (tsty).
Hence there is no point in nominating him.
The four board members whose terms end on January 31 are Kent Nassen (kentn),
Andy Ball (ball), Ryan Antkowiak (ryan), and Jonathan Chapman (glitch).
To appear on the ballot, a person must be nominated in this item by November
15 and affirmatively accept the nomination in this item before the start of
voting on December 1. Seconds are not required. Self-nominations are
permitted.
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keesan
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response 1 of 40:
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Nov 8 23:01 UTC 2013 |
I nominate all four current board members whose terms end, if they want to
run again.
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denise
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response 2 of 40:
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Nov 11 02:23 UTC 2013 |
Who on the current board is eligible to run again?
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kentn
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response 3 of 40:
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Nov 11 03:08 UTC 2013 |
All are eligible to run again except TS.
See: https://grex.org/cyberspace/board.xhtml
Note that the Grex membership modified the by-laws to
remove term limits.
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kentn
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response 4 of 40:
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Nov 11 14:53 UTC 2013 |
Our grex governance page shows:
Jonathan Chapman (glitch)
Andrew Ball (ball)
Ryan Antkowiak (ryan)
Kent Nassen (kentn)
Are the current Board members with expiring terms. Just so
their names are explicitly in this item...
I accept.
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glitch
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response 5 of 40:
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Nov 11 16:42 UTC 2013 |
I accept as well.
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mary
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response 6 of 40:
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Nov 12 17:15 UTC 2013 |
Thank you both.
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tod
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response 7 of 40:
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Nov 12 19:20 UTC 2013 |
Why is TS excluded?
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ball
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response 8 of 40:
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Nov 13 02:28 UTC 2013 |
I'm not sure whether to accept the nomination.
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kentn
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response 9 of 40:
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Nov 13 03:52 UTC 2013 |
TS ran last year for 2 year term. The entire Grex Board
does not come up for re-election every year, in other
words.
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kentn
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response 10 of 40:
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Nov 13 20:48 UTC 2013 |
Andy, we could sure use your input on the Board, so I hope
you'll accept.
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richard
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response 11 of 40:
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Nov 16 22:56 UTC 2013 |
question-- who on the board is the treasurer and is that person's term up? of
course a group really only needs a treasure if it has money and paid members.
Does grex have either now?
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kentn
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response 12 of 40:
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Nov 17 00:57 UTC 2013 |
TS is the treasurer and no his term is not up.
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kentn
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response 13 of 40:
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Nov 17 00:58 UTC 2013 |
BTW, technically nominations close(d) on Nov. 15 but since this item
was a bit late in getting posted, we might want to extend the
nomination period to be fair. Does anyone have an objection to
that (we've done it in the past)?
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kentn
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response 14 of 40:
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Nov 17 01:29 UTC 2013 |
Re 11: Grex has enough money to survive for quite a few years.
Remember, we don't have many expenses now and people have been signing
up for memberships right along. We have over $1000 at the current time
(the exact number should be in the minutes of last meeting, which I
don't think have been entered in coop yet). Our bylaws require
a chairperson, a secretary, and a treasurer. It's not enough to say
that a treasurer is all we need.
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jgelinas
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response 15 of 40:
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Nov 30 21:17 UTC 2013 |
Hmmm...
I only see two acceptances: kentn and glitch. As things stand right now,
we will only have those two to vote on.
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gelinas
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response 16 of 40:
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Dec 1 00:22 UTC 2013 |
The election is set to run from one minute past midnight on 1 December through
one minute before midnight on 15 December. We have two candidates (I hope
both of them are members) for four seats.
Note that voting is from the web, so we will have to wait for the main page
to be modified. (I found it to be like eating a Lays potato chip.)
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kentn
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response 17 of 40:
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Dec 1 00:56 UTC 2013 |
Yeah, we didn't get any other nominations. Feel free to make some.
Or nominate yourself. Nominations should close tonight, though.
Otherwise we'd need to push out the election a little.
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