[Eg-oversight-board] Officer Elections next week

[Gagnon, Ron]

Grace and all,
Sounds like a plan to me.
Ron

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> Yamil, apologies for my delayed response.
> Andrea is correct, the only matter the incoming EOB members vote on prior
> to officially taking office is officer elections.  To that end, I've now
> included our incoming members into this thread.
>
> So, let's talk about how we should proceed with our first officer election.
> The Board has agreed, but has not yet passed a resolution, that newly
> elected Board members who have not yet served a term on the EOB should not
> be eligible for elected office during their first term.
> Abiding by that, those eligible for elected positions are Grace, Sharon,
> Ruth, Tim, and Amy.
>
> Shall I send an email kicking off the Chair position elections and ask
> that anyone from the above group who does *not* wish to be considered for
> the Chair position decline the automatic inclusion?  Or would everyone
> prefer to do more traditional nominations via email?
>
> Any thoughts/preferences are welcome!  We do need to move relatively
> quickly though, so please respond as soon as you can.
>
> Thanks!
> Grace
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Andrea Buntz Neiman <
> aneiman at kent.lib.md.us> wrote:
>
>> 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 21620410-778-3636 x2115www.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>
>> 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>
>> 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
>>>
>>> --
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Ronald A. Gagnon
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North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE)
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