Friendsof thelibrary Posted December 15, 2010 at 06:50 AM Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 at 06:50 AM Our current Treasurer has withdrawn herself from the election for officers for 2011. This leaves this spot vacant. Is it required that we reopen the nominations at our election meeting to see if anyone is interested in the position, or can we leave this position vacant and choose to have the Executive Committee appoint someone to fill the position at the beginning of the year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted December 15, 2010 at 08:03 AM Report Share Posted December 15, 2010 at 08:03 AM Our current Treasurer has withdrawn herself from the election for officers for 2011. This leaves this spot vacant. Is it required that we reopen the nominations at our election meeting to see if anyone is interested in the position, or can we leave this position vacant and choose to have the Executive Committee appoint someone to fill the position at the beginning of the year?No, elected officers have to be elected. The Executive Committee can fill vacancies if your bylaws explicitly give them this power but that refers to someone vacating an office they actually hold, prior to the end of their term. You can't use vacancy-filling procedures to substitute for an incomplete election. Yes, you should open the floor to nominations at your election meeting, but you should ordinarily be doing that anyway for all offices, even if you use a nominating committee or other method.Remember that a lack of nominees is no excuse for not holding the election. If there are no nominees, you conduct the election anyway with blank ballots and let people write in the names of any eligible candidate. You should probably be prepared to conduct more than one ballot before a majority victor emerges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Martin Posted December 16, 2010 at 01:11 AM Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 at 01:11 AM Yes, you should open the floor to nominations at your election meeting, but you should ordinarily be doing that anyway for all offices, even if you use a nominating committee or other method.I would strike the words "or other method." The procedure of nominations from the floor is only used by default if the assembly is using the methods of nominations from the floor (obviously) or nominations by a committee. If the assembly uses some other method (for instance, nominations by mail) the chair should not call for nominations from the floor unless a motion is adopted to reopen nominations (majority vote). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Novosielski Posted December 16, 2010 at 01:21 AM Report Share Posted December 16, 2010 at 01:21 AM I would strike the words "or other method."Without objection.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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