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On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:15 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Ideally, I'd like to have trustee elections finished by 16 May. Of |
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> course, that means we need to decide how to handle the elections. |
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> Here's a proposal: |
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> 1. Trustee wannabees need to e-mail -nfp with a statement to that |
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> effect. Any eligible foundation member may run for a trustee |
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> position. The deadline for announcing candidacy is one week prior |
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> to the beginning of voting. |
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> 2. A ballot containing the names of all candidates will be assembled |
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> which essentially just has a check box for each name. |
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> 3. Voting will last for one week. |
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> 4. All candidates who reach or surpass a threshold of 50% yes votes |
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> are thereby elected as trustees. |
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> 5. In the case that fewer than four trustees are elected outright (I believe |
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> that by NM law there needs to be a president, a secretary, a |
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> treasurer, and possibly something else?), then the top four vote |
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> recipients are elected as trustees. |
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> Notice that I didn't say that it was necessarily a good proposal. I'd |
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> like to avoid needing an initial vote on how many trustees are needed, |
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> so this proposal deliberately leaves the number of trustees that one |
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> wants to vote for up to the individual members. The threshold of 50% |
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> was picked entirely at random. Better ideas cheerfully accepted! |
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This seems reasonable to me, but I have a few small questions. Has |
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the number of trustees been decided? ie...are we sticking with the |
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current number or possibly less? Also, what about having say 2 year |
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terms with elections held every year, essentially splitting up the |
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trustees so that there's no possibility that all be voted out at once? |
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This would allow a continuous "voice" of the board. |
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Thanks, |
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Brad Cowan <bcowan@g.o> |
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Developer, |
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