[Eg-oversight-board] EOB elections

[Amy Terlaga]

>only the EOB itself votes on its Board positions

Oh.  Right.  I had forgotten that important detail.

So then I'm fine with your plan.  But for discussion later today ....

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Grace Dunbar <gdunbar at esilibrary.com>
wrote:

> Hi Amy,
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:
>
>> However, I'm wondering about this:
>> -------------
>> 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.
>> --------------
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Well, there are a few things to keep in mind here.
> a.) only the EOB itself votes on its Board positions, so we're dealing
> with a small voting group (and a small amount of elected positions).
> b.) the manner in which it has previously been handled is via nominations
> and voting all within the confines of the meeting at the conference - which
> is a much more limited time frame and one that I feel may stifle the
> process.
>
> So, we could do nominations and voting via email/irc/balloting that week.
> Or we could just do nominations and do the voting at the meeting if we
> wish.  I think the most important part at this point is to at least agree
> that we can put out a call for new EOB member nominations on March 4th.  We
> can work the rest out later if need be.
>
> Thanks for the input!
> Grace
>
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