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No member of the association wants to be President!


J H Smith

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First check the bylaws. Officers (current ones) may be in office "until the election of their successors" - if no election, they STAY in (at least until they quit which it seems he has done! or you finally do have an election).

Or the offices may fall vacant, and some vacancy filling provision in your bylaws will kick in.

Or....

Announce that because of a lack of leadership interest, the organization will dissolve itself and go out of business. Really. Organizations don't last forever, and it is much better to close up shop formally than just drift along, and then wonder what happened to the bank account, far too long after the fact to do anything about it.

Often enough a threat like this one will shake some people out of the woodwork who will be willing to serve after all. But if it doesn't, there is a message there...

You might also consider WHY no one wants to be president. Perhaps you're asking too much of that position. Perhaps the past presidents have made the job appear more difficult than it has to be. Perhaps the members are making it harder on the president than they should.

Perhaps the board should be doing more. After all, the only essential role of the president is to preside at meetings. Some or all administrative responsibilities could be delegated to, or distributed among, the board members.

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No member will accept the position of President. No write-ins. No nominee from the floor.Out-going President no longer want's the position. WHAT TO DO?

Apparently no one is vested in seeing the organization continue in existence. If that is the case, it may be time to look to RONR p. 546 line 29 through p. 547.

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No member will accept the position of President. No write-ins. No nominee from the floor.Out-going President no longer want's the position. WHAT TO DO?

You hold repeated rounds of balloting (voters write in their choices on blank slips of paper) until someone receives a majority vote and does not decline the office.

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