>At 11:03 AM 10/07/1999 -0700, Betsy Mills wrote: >> >May I point out that the by-laws do not allow for a special election except >for National Coordinator. We added the Reps to the last special election >only because one was being held for National Coordinator. That does not >apply this time. > The By-Laws just say: Article 6, Section 8. In the event a board member is unable to complete his/her term, the Advisory Board will appoint a replacement to serve until the next scheduled election. Not a peep about how the Advisory Board is to go about deciding who we appoint (nor any time limit.) This doesn't prohibit an election, it just doesn't say one is required. It also doesn't prohibit flipping a coin, formally or informally polling the region's CC's, picking the runner-up from the previous election, or any other means. Theoretically, we could even poll the CC's and then appoint whoever gets the *fewest* votes. Guaranteed to stir things up :-), but it wouldn't be against the By-Laws. All I'm saying is that we ought to ask the NE/NC CC's how they'd LIKE us to go about making the appointment. It's their representative we're appointing, and there's nearly a full year of the term left to go, so we want to make sure that even the CC's who disagree with the final choice at least feel that they had a say in the process. Otherwise whoever gets appointed may be faced with being labeled "the Board's hand-picked yes-man" instead of the NE/NC CC's Rep, even if they're exactly the SAME person that most of the region's CC's would have picked given a choice. That's just the way people are. It's human nature to be more content to be outvoted than to be unconsulted. // Teri