Patricio's email on the topic makes it quite clear that María was appointed to the seat vacated by James Heilman:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081540.html
And, as we are all aware, James was himself appointed as the result of an election. Unless the relevant authorities in Florida have overturned María's appointment and I have not heard about it, she is sitting in the seat formerly occupied by James.
I don't disagree that it would be a good thing to have a formally agreed procedure on how to handle vacancies that might arise in these community-selected seats, but that doesn't change the reality that we must deal with here and now.
Cheers, Craig
On 27 February 2016 at 21:47, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 February 2016 at 11:33, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
While it's nice to think that everyone might be able to kiss and make up, the trustees (particularly Jimmy) and James have been mauling each other politely in public for the best part of two months. I don't think it's realistic to expect that everything can just go back to the way it was,
and
expect that the BoT would function properly again with James back in place. Keeping in mind his former position as a community selected
trustee
has already been filled with Maria Sefidari, at any rate.
Correction: Maria Sefidari was a "candidate for community selection", she was not selected by the community but appointed using an post election invented procedure for political convenience. If Maria wishes to become a community selected board member she would need to *win an election*, until that time she is in reality an appointed member.
I hope that Maria will run for a proper election at the earliest opportunity. She was a good candidate and would be a better representative if correctly elected.
Fae
faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae