Nominations and Elections Committee

Annual Report for 2004/2005

S. John, Chair

Members: Sarah John (Chair), Lisa Spagnolo, Elaine Franco, Kathy Lin, Karleen Darr (ex-officio)

Daryl Morrison and Susan Llano offered invaluable advice to the incoming committee chair.

The committee first met on Feb. 15^th, 2005 to review the bylaws and discuss possible candidates for appointment/election.

The committee met again on March 18^th to prepare a slate. The committee was very successful in finding people willing to run for office or volunteer for appointments. The committee chair kept a list of people interested in the open positions.

The committee chair announced the call for nominations at the LAUC-D General Membership meeting on March 30^th. Prior to the General meeting, the chair emailed an announcement to the LAUC-D list with an attached form indicating which positions needed filling.

After the nomination deadline passed on April 15^th, the committee met to prepare an official ballot. Later in May, the chair received the Statewide election ballots and candidate statements. The committee met on May 11^th to assemble ballots.

Ballots were distributed on May 18^th, the deadline was the Election Day, held June 8^th. S. John and K. Darr met on June 9^th to count ballots. There was a tie for the position of Nominations and Elections Committee chair. After consulting with the Executive Board, there was a runoff election. The results of the election were announced through the LAUC-D email list, along with a notification and instructions for the runoff election. The results of the election were sent to the Statewide Secretary with a notification of the special runoff election.

The runoff election ballots were distributed on June 13^th with a deadline of June 22^nd. The ballots were counted by the chair on June 23^rd, and the tie was resolved. The results were announced to the membership and the Statewide Secretary.

Attachments:

Call for volunteers

Election ballots

Special Runoff ballot

Election results