Hi all,
I was just asked a good question by a member of this year's executive: are current executives eligible to stand for election? This is also related to term limits (our new bylaws have term-limits on all elected positions to ensure that there is some churn on the executive and new perspectives are able to get in.
The bylaws treat 2014 as year 0 for GO::DH. Last year we took the risk of setting things up and then developing bylaws as we went along, and we were very lucky that everything went very smoothly. But since most members of the executive were self-appointed (we asked for volunteers and the board consisted of everybody who volunteered), we felt in putting the bylaws together that the election of our first executive was really going to be a new stage in the history of the project.
So this means that service in 2013 is basically ignored by the bylaws. If you are on the executive or doing anything for GO::DH, you are absolutely welcome (and indeed encouraged) to put your name forward for election. If you are elected, your service in 2013 won't count against any term limits. We're treating 2014 as if it were the first year... which it is of GO::DH as a truly democratic organisation.
That seems perfectly fair and correct to me. Best regards, Marin
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Daniel O'Donnell daniel.odonnell@uleth.cawrote:
Hi all,
I was just asked a good question by a member of this year's executive: are current executives eligible to stand for election? This is also related to term limits (our new bylaws have term-limits on all elected positions to ensure that there is some churn on the executive and new perspectives are able to get in.
The bylaws treat 2014 as year 0 for GO::DH. Last year we took the risk of setting things up and then developing bylaws as we went along, and we were very lucky that everything went very smoothly. But since most members of the executive were self-appointed (we asked for volunteers and the board consisted of everybody who volunteered), we felt in putting the bylaws together that the election of our first executive was really going to be a new stage in the history of the project.
So this means that service in 2013 is basically ignored by the bylaws. If you are on the executive or doing anything for GO::DH, you are absolutely welcome (and indeed encouraged) to put your name forward for election. If you are elected, your service in 2013 won't count against any term limits. We're treating 2014 as if it were the first year... which it is of GO::DH as a truly democratic organisation.
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