[Eg-oversight-board] EOB elections

[Ruth Frasur]

I'd like to have the nominating and voting on officers before the
conference meeting.

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Amy Terlaga <terlaga at biblio.org> wrote:

> >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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