[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

Mike Godwin mgodwin at wikimedia.org
Tue Apr 29 15:17:42 UTC 2008


Ray writes:

> I understand that the election process, as we know it, takes a lot of
> work, and that having elections for the three community members in
> alternate years would obviously ease that burden.  Still we have the
> experience of Erik's resignation, which took place during the first  
> year
> of a two-year term.  In such circumstances there appears to be no  
> means
> to fill that kind of vacancy for at least a whole year.

This is not a problem at all. The Board can hold a special election or  
it can appoint someone from the community (maybe the next-highest vote- 
getter in the previous election) to fill the seat.


--Mike







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