remmers
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Nominations for the Board of Directors
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Oct 28 01:40 UTC 1999 |
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
held December 1 through December 15. Terms of office begin on January
1, 2000, and are two years in length. Three seats are up for election
this time around.
Any current member of Grex who has paid at least 3 months' membership
dues is eligible to run for and serve on the Board unless they are
currently serving and are completing the second of two consecutive
terms. (People in the latter group are eligible to run again in
next year's election if they are still members at that time.)
The terms of three Board members have one more year to run: STeve
Andre (steve), John Remmers (remmers), and Jan Wolter (janc).
Therefore, there is no point in nominating them.
The four Board members whose terms end on December 31 are Mark
Conger (aruba), Dan Gryniewicz (dang), Scott Helmke (scott), and
Misti Tucker (mta). All four are completing two consecutive terms
and are therefore not eligible to run for re-election (although
they will be eligible again next year).
Use this item to make nominations. To see the current membership list,
type
!members | more
if you are running Picospan. Although a person does not have to be
a member at the time of nomination, to be eligible to run they must
be members by the time voting begins on November 15.
The Bylaws are posted in item 2 of this conference and enumerate the
duties of directors.
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mdw
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response 2 of 167:
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Oct 28 06:20 UTC 1999 |
I believe it's traditional for the members to merely elect people to the
board, and then for the board to select officers from the board members.
A peculiar and unintended consequence of this practice is that grex
technically doesn't have any officers from 1 jan to the first board
meeting in january (oops). There are also I think only 4 openings, not
7.
It's also a good idea to elect people who have the time and will work
well with each other and with staff, since this will be crucial to their
success on the board. This is unfortunately something of an art, and
not always easy to predict.
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albaugh
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response 3 of 167:
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Oct 28 06:22 UTC 1999 |
Can only members make the nominations? And before the vote, the
nomiated have to affirm their willingness to run and server, if
elected, in order for their names to appear on the ballot, true?
If there were for some reason a shortage of "qualified" nominees by the
time nominations were to close, I would consider "running". I do not
nominate myself at this time.
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scg
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response 4 of 167:
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Oct 28 07:14 UTC 1999 |
re 1:
While I appreciate the nomination, I would make a horrible treasurer.
I have enough trouble keeping track of my own money. I'm also not interested
in being on the board at all at this point. It was sometimes interesting,
sometimes fun, and even sometimes both, but four years was enough.
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