{"id":3601,"date":"2015-06-22T15:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peoplesfood.coop\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:00:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T23:00:04","slug":"board-announcement-invalid-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplesfood.coop\/newsite\/2015\/06\/22\/board-announcement-invalid-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Board Announcement: Invalid Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8381\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8817\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8816\">The 2015 People&#8217;s Food Co-op Board election failed to meet the required quorum of 10 % of the membership, 816 votes. Only 531 members voted during the 28 day election period ending on April 27<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_9015\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8745\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8744\">The two Board members whose terms were to have expired with this election will continue to serve until the 2016 election unless they decide to resign from their position on the Board. This is in accordance with bylaw 5.2 which states \u201cDirectors shall serve for three (3) years or until their successors are elected, whichever is longer.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8436\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8483\"><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_5328\"><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_5327\"><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_5326\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The Board was sad that quorum was not met. We acknowledge that<b>\u00a0<\/b><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_5475\">more could have been done to get out the vote. The Board wants to do all it can to correct this problem going forward.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8530\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8370\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8369\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8368\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8367\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_5488\">In response to failure to meet quorum, the Board of People&#8217;s Food Co-op held a special meeting on May 4<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_5489\">. The Board discussed options and decided to try to conduct a repeat election in a timely fashion\u00a0<\/span><u>if<\/u><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8747\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8746\">\u00a0this was determined by our lawyer to be a legal option in accordance with our bylaws. However, in consultation with our lawyer it was determined that a repeat election prior to next year was\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_6376\"><span id=\"ecxyui_3_16_0_1_1434819179882_6375\">not<\/span><\/u><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8366\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8365\">\u00a0a legal option.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8577\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8324\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8323\">At our regular May board meeting the Board of Directors accepted the advice of our lawyer and decided not to pursue a prompt repeat election.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8881\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8320\" dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"ecxyiv0096599607yui_3_16_0_1_1434145158528_8319\">The Board has begun an initial effort to better understand our membership activity as a first step towards assuring that quorum is achieved in the future.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The 2015 People&#8217;s Food Co-op Board election failed to meet the required quorum of 10 % of the membership, 816 votes. Only 531 members voted during the 28 day election period ending on April 27th. \u00a0 The two Board members whose terms were to have expired with this election will continue to serve until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Board Announcement: Invalid Election - People&#039;s Food Co-op<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/peoplesfood.coop\/newsite\/2015\/06\/22\/board-announcement-invalid-election\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Board Announcement: Invalid Election - People&#039;s Food Co-op\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 The 2015 People&#8217;s Food Co-op Board election failed to meet the required quorum of 10 % of the membership, 816 votes. 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