12a) Nominations for Executive Positions

[Christopher Mallon]

If you would like to nominate someone for an Executive position, please post below.

Only incoming governors are allowed to post in this thread; any other posts will be deleted or moved.

Nominations do not have to be seconded, but feel free to speak to someone's nomination if you wish. I will update this first post with a running tally of who has been nominated.

If you are someone who has been nominated and you wish to accept or decline, please either reply here or let myself or Rob Clark know by email.

President
Rob Clark (accepted)
Michael Barron (accepted)

Regional Vice-Presidents (pre-selected by the Leagues)

Secretary
Michael Zaghi (accepted)

Treasurer
Brett Campbell (accepted)

Youth-Coordinator
Patrick McDonald (accepted)

[Michael von Keitz]

I nominate the outgoing slate:

President - Rob Clark
Treasurer - Brett Campbell
Secretary - Michael Zaghi
Youth Coordinator - Patrick McDonald

[Brett Campbell]

I would be happy to serve as Treasurer again. Thank you for thinking of me, Michael.

[Michael Barron]

Only incoming governors are allowed to post in this thread; any other posts will be deleted or moved.


Christopher,
Could you please list the Governors who are allowed to post in this thread?

[Christopher Mallon]

Christopher,
Could you please list the Governors who are allowed to post in this thread?

I'd be happy to, but I have not been advised by all of the leagues who their incoming Governors are.

[Kevin Pacey]

I, nor the EOCA for that matter, don't yet know if I'll be officially an EOCA incoming Governor yet, besides being an outgoing one. It depends on what happens in other parts of this Outgoing meeting within the 2012 OCA AGM.

We (EOCA President Aris Marghetis and I, at least) thought I was to be an official EOCA Incoming Governor, until the matters involved with the threads of 11b) Motion 2012-A and the Poll 11b-1) Challenge Vote came up.

As I've posted elsewhere, in the event it's decided at any point that the EOCA receives 3 (or fewer) incoming Governors instead of 4, it was agreed at the EOCA 2012 AGM that I was first in line to be dropped. Aris can confirm this.

[Aris Marghetis]

The Governors from the EOCA are :

1) Aris Marghetis
2) Robert Laszlo
3) Gordon Ritchie
4) Kevin Pacey

Best regards,

Aris Marghetis
EOCA President
OCA Regional VP

[Rob Clark]

NOCL is pleased to announce their governor will be Ellen Nadeau.

[Marcus Wilker]

I'm not sure if there's a timeline for the different stages of the meeting (the Outgoing meeting, the Ingoing Meeting) but this online format where everything's happening at once does seem to causing some problems when some items do need to be resolved before full participation in others can occur.

Can someone in 11 b) propose a deadline or deadlines to raise any possible new issues or for whatever vote needs to take place there? It's holding other things up.

Or can I (and Kevin Pacey, et al.) just act like we're incoming unless we discover otherwise?

[Rob Clark]

Also, I will run again for president but there are a few things that I would very much be in favour of seeing. One is Brett staying on as treasurer as I feel that the OCA really needs someone who is honest and competent to take care of the books. Although, if there are other nominations for president from anyone who knows the OCA well, I would certainly encourage them to run.

[Rob Clark]

I'm not sure if there's a timeline for the different stages of the meeting (the Outgoing meeting, the Ingoing Meeting) but this online format where everything's happening at once does seem to causing some problems when some items do need to be resolved before full participation in others can occur.

Can someone in 11 b) propose a deadline or deadlines to raise any possible new issues or for whatever vote needs to take place there? It's holding other things up.

Or can I (and Kevin Pacey, et al.) just act like we're incoming unless we discover otherwise?

Yes, act as though you are incoming governors unless it is changed. There will be an overlap bwetween electing exec and the motion before the outgoing governors if the challenge passes. This will be rectified by doing both (electing the exec as well as voting on the motion) at once and then seeing the result of the motion and removing the votes which would be affected by the motion. So if the motion passes, more people will vote on this than is actually possible but the vote will then be changed to reflect the actual result.

The challenge is not something I anticipated and is something that will be improved for the future.

[Rob Clark]

Are there anymore nominations for any positions? Voting starts soon.

[Michael Barron]

Voting starts soon.

Could you please be more specific?

[Kevin Pacey]

Not sure if the idea has any merit, but has any thought been given to creating an OCA Special Officer position for overseeing the Ontario Team Championships in future (whether or not they are conducted by the internet) should they unfold as soon as next term, as is hoped for (see the OCA President's report)?

[Marcus Wilker]

I nominate:

President - Michael Barron

Also, does anyone have any other good suggestions for Secretary and Youth Coordinator? Both are still pending. Do these people want to take these positions?

[Patrick McDonald]

I would be happy to stand for re-election to the position of OCA Youth Coordinator.

Thank you for the nomination.

[Rob Clark]

I think Patrick is outstanding as Youth Co-ordinator and he has my vote.

[Rob Clark]

Could you please be more specific?

You received an email with the break down a few weeks ago.


5 days for items 1-11 (see below) then a three day voting window for 12-15 which will be discussed during the initial 5 days. Then another 5 day period for all matters pertaining to the incoming board followed by another 3 day voting period and then adjournment.


5.5 Agenda: The agenda of the annual meeting shall be as follows:

A. Matters for the outgoing Board

1) Call to Order and announcement of Board members present and verification of proxies

2) Reading of the Minutes of the last Annual Meeting

3) President’s Report

4) Executive Vice-President’s Report

5) Secretary’s Report

6) Treasurer’s Report

7) Youth Co-ordinator’s Report

8) Special Officers’ Reports

9) League Reports

10) Auditor’s Report

11) Other business raised by the outgoing Board

12) Ratification of the new members of the Board
B. Matters for the incoming Board

13) Election of Officers and Special Officers

14) Consideration of any Special Resolutions, including proposals to amend the Constitution and Bylaws

15) Appointment of Auditor

16) Listing of the Governors to the Chess Federation of Canada as elected in the regional affiliates by the CFC Members of the region

17) Review of chess activity in Ontario and proposed activity for the next fiscal year

18) Budget

19) New business

20) Other business

21) Adjournment


Therefore voting will start tomorrow for the exec.

[Michael Barron]

Thank you, Marcus!

I accept the nomination.

For those who don't know me, I would briefly introduce myself:
First time I was elected to the OCA Executive in 2003.
Since 2005 I'm the President of Greater Toronto Chess League - the largest OCA affiliate.
In 2008-2011 I was as well CFC Executive member.

If elected, I would bring to the OCA Executive much needed experience and leadership.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to respond.

[Michael Barron]

You received an email with the break down a few weeks ago.


5 days for items 1-11 (see below) then a three day voting window for 12-15 which will be discussed during the initial 5 days. Then another 5 day period for all matters pertaining to the incoming board followed by another 3 day voting period and then adjournment.


5.5 Agenda: The agenda of the annual meeting shall be as follows:

A. Matters for the outgoing Board

1) Call to Order and announcement of Board members present and verification of proxies

2) Reading of the Minutes of the last Annual Meeting

3) President’s Report

4) Executive Vice-President’s Report

5) Secretary’s Report

6) Treasurer’s Report

7) Youth Co-ordinator’s Report

8) Special Officers’ Reports

9) League Reports

10) Auditor’s Report

11) Other business raised by the outgoing Board

12) Ratification of the new members of the Board
B. Matters for the incoming Board

13) Election of Officers and Special Officers

14) Consideration of any Special Resolutions, including proposals to amend the Constitution and Bylaws

15) Appointment of Auditor

16) Listing of the Governors to the Chess Federation of Canada as elected in the regional affiliates by the CFC Members of the region

17) Review of chess activity in Ontario and proposed activity for the next fiscal year

18) Budget

19) New business

20) Other business

21) Adjournment


Therefore voting will start tomorrow for the exec.

Thank you, Mr. Clark!

If you could add the dates, it would help... :)

[Rob Clark]

Can't express this strongly enough, Mr. Barron expressed a strong interest in folding the OCA so the GTCL can possibly get another governor via side stepping the OCA. This wouldn't be accepted by the CFC and would be a disaster, everything would be left in limbo.

[Christopher Mallon]

I'll be opening the votes shortly after Noon today, so that's pretty much the deadline if you wish to nominate someone (and have them accept). Has Michael Zaghi accepted the Secretary nomination?

[Rob Clark]

Yes, Michael Zaghi has accepted the nomination.

[Marcus Wilker]

Can't express this strongly enough, Mr. Barron expressed a strong interest in folding the OCA so the GTCL can possibly get another governor via side stepping the OCA. This wouldn't be accepted by the CFC and would be a disaster, everything would be left in limbo.

Rob, I think you're misrepresenting Michael. Wasn't he merely pointing out the difference in the number of governors the GTCL would have if it were a direct affiliate of the CFC, compared to the number it now has, since OCA is responsible for distributing the allotment of governors in the province? If I'm right about what you're referring to, it was pretty clearly a hypothetical exercise, exploring a counter-factual to illustrate the way in which OCA was interfering in the CFC allotment of governors. I think it's a bit of a leap to see it as a rally cry for (or even a "strong interest" in) GTCL secession from the OCA.

Do we have an anti-mudslinging policy anywhere? (Don't worry, Rob, I'll be the first to admit it's flying both ways.) You seem to be characterizing Michael as a secessionist. And I heard someone else throwing "communist" around earlier. I know as Canadians we're used to politicians characterizing their political rivals as "socialists and separatists," but do we really have to do that here?