Welcome back Maria. Recent events have shed a much-needed bright light on the board, and it would have been good to hold a community election in that light. We do have a limited volunteer capacity to manage elections, though, and I can understand the desire not to impose too much on volunteer goodwill. A shame, though. We all might have learned something from the process.
On Saturday, 30 January 2016, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
So, why not make the best of both worlds?
If you need another Trustee immediately, well...I don't really think that, you have a quorum without it. And an appointed trustee who lost a community election is not a community elected trustee. It is insulting to say that they are. James Heilman was the community trustee, and we still have been given absolutely no specifics about his removal, just vague handwaves at "lack of trust". Why, specifically, did he lose your trust? What, specifically, did he supposedly do wrong?
But if the seat absolutely must be filled, make this an interim appointment until a new election is complete, and hold such an election as soon as possible. A new election is necessary, and not having one is unacceptable. A lot has changed since the last one, and the individual you appointed did not pass the previous election.
Or in other words: This is still not acceptable.
Todd
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Adam Wight <adam.m.wight@gmail.com javascript:;> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:09 PM Tomasz W. Kozlowski < tomasz@twkozlowski.com javascript:;> wrote:
Considering the results of the 2015 May Board elections, I think it
fair
to say that María’s appointment to the Board lacks any community
legitimacy
whatsoever.
I have to disagree with this statement. Please see my analysis of the election, where I show that Sefidari would have been the top-ranked candidate if we had counted votes equally.[1] The "oppose" votes you
refer
to are not serving the purpose you imagine they are, of weeding out controversial candidates.
Yet another hugely surprising decision from the Board, I’m sorry to say.
That's another story... It would be nice to read the minutes of this
Board
discussion, to see what alternatives were raised and how they were evaluated. It would be even nicer if the broader community had been directly involved in deciding how to backfill their hatcheted representative's seat.
-Adam [[mw:User:Adamw]]
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