I forgot to add that one of the benefits of having elections scheduled
every year is that if a community-elected member departs from the board in
the first year of their term, then it's simple to have another seat elected
in the next cycle to fill the remainder of that term..
Pine
On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm glad we're thinking about how to improve
Board elections, including
about possible screening for COI issues early in the election process.
Thinking also about Board composition, what if we changed Jimmy's seat to
another community-elected seat, and ran elections for what would be 4
community-elected seats every year with 2 seats elected each year for 2
year terms? I think that a standing Elections Committee might be able to
facilitate this kind of cycle.
Also worth considering:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Thin…
Pine
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Anders Wennersten <
mail(a)anderswennersten.se> wrote:
Den 2016-04-09 kl. 12:51, skrev Fæ:
leaving your seat should be made to appear like
a
royal abdication or the result of failure.
Yes, another option to secure a continuity of members in the board would
be to
accept resignations will occur and then have the community election
to end formally in a number of "reserves". and that these reserves are to
be elected by the Board if resignation occurs.
As the community election today only gives three candidates for the
Board to elect (or reject), the number four must be seen as a runner up, to
be selected by the Board if they do not approve any of the first three.
This reasoning was also reflected in the stating by the election community
in early January and the election of Maria as a replacement for James by
the Board. To extend the same reasoning this time is stretching it a bit
far, time since last election is further away, and number five in the
election has at least by me never been seen as a runnerup. If the Board in
their selection after a community election were to reject two candidates I
would consider a reelection more relevant then to go further down the list .
But a bylection is quite costly to set up and run centrally and also for
the whole community. So perhaps we should be broadminded in thinking how
could fill the empty seat after Danny
Anders
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