[Eg-oversight-board] EOB elections

[Amy Terlaga]

Hi Grace--

Most of this reads as very reasonable to me.  However, I'm wondering about
this:
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The one certain benefit of having the officers nominations and elections
prior to the conference, and not trying to shoehorn it into a normal
meeting, is you could hold each office's election separately.  First,
nominations for Chair, then we vote for the Chair.  Then Vice Chair
nominations...etc.  This would allow someone who was nominated for Chair to
declare interest in running for Vice Chair or Secretary, if they don't win
the Chair position.  I feel that this kind of thing, while possible, is
much harder to accomplish with our current election process.
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Do you mean to say that the officer nomination/election process would all
happen in that last week (week 6), right before the conference?  And it
would be done in stages - everybody vote for Chair, announce winner, now
everybody vote for Vice-Chair, announce winner, etc?  I'm not sure if a
week is a reasonable enough time to accomplish this.  Or maybe I've
misunderstood you.

My only thought right now.

Amy

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> It's that time again.  Oversight Board elections!
>
> Per the rules of governance: <http://evergreen-ils.org/governance/>
> *"At the end of the Evergreen Conference for a calendar year, the term of
> outgoing Board members will end and the term of incoming Board members will
> begin. If no Evergreen Conference is held during a calendar year, terms
> will begin and end at midnight EDT on April 30."*
>
> According to the above, there’s no reason we can’t announce the new
> members slightly in advance of their term beginning, which I favor, as it’s
> easier to schedule the elections without trying to plan it around getting
> the numbers in the week of the conference. Also, it’s easier for the new
> members to plan to attend the EOB meeting at the conference if they’re
> given as much notice as possible.
>
> With that in mind, I'd like to propose the following schedule for the
> timing of general EOB elections going forward. (What this would mean for
> elections this year is noted in parentheses.)
>
>
>    - The election processes should begin 6 weeks prior to the annual
>    conference or April 15th, whichever comes first.  (April 15 comes first
>    this year)
>    - Weeks 1-3 to nominate/accept candidacy (Starting March 4 through
>    March 25)
>    - Weeks 2-3 for finalization of candidates bios and management of
>    voting registration (March 18 through March 25)   * Yes, there’s
>    overlap. :)*
>    - Week 4 for voting and finalization of those elected. (March 26
>    through April 1)
>    - Week 5 for: Notification of the new Board members, ironing out
>    conflicts so new members can attend the EOB meeting at the annual
>    conference (either in person or virtually), and announcing the new members
>    (?). (April 2 through April 9)
>
> Which brings me to my next question/issue that I'd like to discuss.
> I’ve left Week 6 (April 10-April 15) open for nomination and election(?)
> of officers.
>
> I've been concerned about the Board elections and I would like to talk
> about ways we could improve them.  Is there any support for nominations of
> officers prior to the elections?  I think it might allow us to give more
> thoughts to the candidates for each position and perhaps encourage
> participation/competition. Do you think that setting aside the final week
> of the process to at least nominate the officers and maybe even vote on
> them would have merit?
>
> The one certain benefit of having the officers nominations and elections
> prior to the conference, and not trying to shoehorn it into a normal
> meeting, is you could hold each office's election separately.  First,
> nominations for Chair, then we vote for the Chair.  Then Vice Chair
> nominations...etc.  This would allow someone who was nominated for Chair to
> declare interest in running for Vice Chair or Secretary, if they don't win
> the Chair position.  I feel that this kind of thing, while possible, is
> much harder to accomplish with our current election process.
> Also, we're all so darned nice we don't like to compete against one
> another.  ;)
>
> Anyhow, I'm done rambling for now.
> Please give the above ideas some thought and respond with any criticisms
> or concerns prior to tomorrow's meeting if you can.  I'd like to set the
> election schedule tomorrow if possible but if any of these proposed changes
> are too contentious we can always handle it next week via an email vote.
>
> Cheers!
> Grace
>
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