[Eg-oversight-board] Officer Elections next week

[Andrea Buntz Neiman]

Yamil --

IIRC, in the past, the outgoing board members abstained from officer 
votes since they were business of the "new" board.  I was planning to 
abstain on those grounds as well.

A.

Andrea Buntz Neiman, MLS
Librarian II, Public Services
Kent County Public Library
408 High Street
Chestertown, MD 21620
410-778-3636 x2115
www.kentcountylibrary.org

On 4/8/2016 4:43 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
> Grace,
>
> My apologies, but I have a couple of questions. Though, I should be 
> available by email next week.
>
> Since my term is ending, it is OK for me to vote on the future 
> officers or do I need abstain?
>
> Instead of nominating specific persons for the officer positions, I 
> guess that you will load all the members whose terms are not expiring 
> for the chair position? Then everyone except the chair-elect for the 
> vice chair vote?
>
> Thanks,
> Yamil
>
> On Apr 8, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org 
> <mailto:terlaga at biblio.org>> wrote:
>
>> >This will require the EOB to be available to check email several 
>> times per day Monday-Thursday next week.  Will this be problematic 
>> for anyone?
>>
>> Grace, I should be able to do this.
>>
>> Amy
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com 
>> <mailto:gdunbar at esilibrary.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi everyone,
>>     As the EOB elections wind down this week (I just sent a reminder
>>     to the few people who registered but haven't voted yet), we need
>>     to look ahead to officer elections.
>>
>>     There is nothing specific in the governance rules regarding how
>>     officers must be nominated and elected.  Unless I hear an
>>     objection, I'd like to proceed with nominations and voting next
>>     week.
>>
>>     Tentatively, I'd like to propose nominations for Chair on Monday
>>     with voting Tuesday. Nominations for Vice-Chair will be Tuesday
>>     with voting Wednesday, and nominations for Secretary will be
>>     Wednesday with voting on Thursday.  This will require the EOB to
>>     be available to check email several times per day Monday-Thursday
>>     next week.  Will this be problematic for anyone?
>>
>>     The section on the representative to the SFC is, frankly, a
>>     little vague. (See section 2.5b
>>     <https://evergreen-ils.org/governance/>)  It just says, "One
>>     Board member shall be the official representative to the Fiscal
>>     Sponsor."  The position is not included with the officer
>>     structure - it is, however, something that the SFC requires, one
>>     official point of contact for our project.  In the past the role
>>     has been assigned to officers and non-officers pretty much
>>     equally.  But since this is not an officer position in and of
>>     itself, I believe we can wait and assign/elect the rep at the
>>     Evergreen conference meeting.  Thoughts?
>>
>>     For the record I had planned to use OpaVote for our vote
>>     recording for the officer elections unless I hear any objections...
>>
>>     Thanks everyone!
>>     Grace
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Grace Dunbar, Vice President
>>     Equinox - Open Your Library
>>     gdunbar at esilibrary.com <mailto:gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
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