Agreed. Is this something that the Election Committee https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee, as a standing committee not tied to a single election, can help with? SJ
I would like the answer to this to be 'yes', but the Elections Committee doesn't seem to do anything except supervise the community elections to the Board (which are, in effect, now run by WMF staff). They did not, for instance, appear to be particularly involved in the work that led to the changes to the Board election structure. They do not publish any information about what they are doing, and they don't appear to be particularly responsive to inquiries even when there is a Board election on. Making the elections committee a 'standing' committee does not appear to have resulted in anything changing, and suggests this committee is not the right group to take any further changes forward.