On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
The board consists of a mixture of appointed and elected members, so there is clearly a choice. Given that choice, why would you ever use an election to select somebody that requires a specific skillset? It would be foolish to the extreme. Democracy is simply not a good way to find a treasurer.
I'm not saying that there isn't a choice. I'm also not saying whether a treasurer should or should not be appointed. I'm saying that I've never seen it written that the treasurer MUST be appointed, and so I have no reason to assume that such a rule exists.
Maybe the board is, by your reasoning, foolish to the extreme. Maybe it is not.
--Andrew Whitworth