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IAVCEI officer nominations needed
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From: Steve McNutt <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Call for Nominations for IAVCEI Officers 2007-2011
It is time for organizing the effort to nominate IAVCEI officers for
the term from July 2007 to July 2011. The IAVCEI officers are:
President [nominations needed]
two Vice Presidents [at least two nominations needed]
Secretary General [nominations needed]
four Executive Committee members [at least four nominations needed]
The current IAVCEI Executive Committee recently formed a
nominations committee:
Dr. Grant Heiken - USA, chair
331 Windantide Place
Freeland, WA 98249-9683
USA
360-331-5904
heiken@xxxxxxxxxxx
Dr. Wally Johnson - Australia
Dr. Sylvie Vergniolle - France
Dr. John Stix - Canada
Dr. Marta Calvache - Colombia
Dr. Tad Ui - Japan
Nominations are invited from the community according to the guidelines
below (from the IAVCEI Statutes and By-Laws; can also be found on web page
www.iavcei.org). Nominations must be sent to the chair of the committee,
and must be received by December 15, 2006.
The election will be held by postal vote and will take place in April 2007.
The "current year" for nomination purposes will be 2006 whereas for
voting purposes it will be 2007. Further information
and updates will appear in future issues of the newsletter and on the IAVCEI
web page. In the sections that follow, note that an "affiliate" is a member.
Relevant Portions of IAVCEI Statutes and By-Laws:
IV. Voting
10. Affiliates from member countries who have paid their dues for
the current year and National Correspondents shall receive ballots for new
office-bearers and for any proposed changes to the Association's Statutes
and By-Laws.
11. Ballots will be distributed at least three months before,
and must be returned no later than one month before IUGG General Assemblies.
12. Any Affiliate or National Correspondent may nominate in
writing any other current Affiliate or National Correspondent as an office-
bearer of the Association provided (1) the nomination is seconded by three
other current Affiliates or National Correspondents each from countries other
than that of the nominee and (2) the nominee, nominator, and seconders are
all from a country belonging to the union. All nominations must be received
no later than six months before the General assemblies of the Union.
13. All nominations shall be considered by a Nominating
Committee which will produce a shortlist of at least two, but no more than
three, candidates for each of the positions on the new Executive Committee.
No more than two candidates from the same country can be proposed by the
Nominating Committee for all of the positions. The Nominating Committee
will be appointed by the Executive Committee no later than nine months
before the General Assemblies of the Union. It will consist of no less
than five current Affiliates or National Correspondents, one of whom will
be nominated by the Executive Committee as a Receiving Officer for postal
votes. The outgoing Executive Committee has the power to appoint candidates
of its own where only one, or no, candidates are nominated by Affiliates
and National Correspondents.
14. Voters shall be required to rank candidates in order of
their preference. The candidate with the largest number of first-place votes
will be elected in cases where there are only two candidates. In cases where
there are three candidates and none has a majority of first-place votes, then
the candidate with the fewest first-place votes will be eliminated. The one
of the two remaining candidates having the higher number of second-place
votes will be elected. The third-place votes will be used in cases where
the second-place votes are equal.
Steve McNutt
Secretary-General for IAVCEI
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Steve McNutt UAFGI
P.O. Box 757320 907-474-7131 tel
Fairbanks, AK 99775 907-474-5618 fax
steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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