[Lilug Planning] {Spam?} Re: Dec 13th meeting topic(s)

[Mark Drago]

FWIW we do this every year.  We accept nominations in November and
December and hold the elections in December.  We should of course
announce this on the main list, but it's not a change in how we've
done things for the past few years.

Mark.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 16:56, Jesse Farinacci <jieryn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Matt Surico <surico at mail.buoy.com> wrote:
>> We (government and planning members) probably subconsciously assumed that
>> since most of the people who show up at most of the meetings have been
>> members for over a year (many for several years) that they are familiar with
>> the election process.  Totally wrong assumption, of course!
>
> I think that is totally understandable, actually. Just didn't work out
> well this time.
>
>> If the LILUG gov't feels that it's appropriate (and I'm starting to think it
>> is) we can put out an announcement in the next day or so that we will take
>> more nominations at the December meeting, and then we will hold elections at
>> the meeting.
>>
>> The LILUG by-laws state that officers can only hold a gov't position for 12
>> months (but can be re-elected; still an election needs to take place every
>> 12 months) so we really do need to hold an election in December.
>>
>> Mark and Matt N are on this planning list so I am sure they are reading
>> this.  Matt, Mark, Mike and I will take this offline and decide about the
>> nomination
>
> Ok, thank you for reviewing it. I think the idea you proposed above
> would be sufficient for me personally.. I await the review of the
> board.
>
> -Jesse
>
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