Nominations for 2025-2026 Board of Directors

[Brad Freese]

Hear ye! Hear ye! (or possibly: Here ye!? Here ye!?)
This is your official nominations thread for the 2025-2026 Board of Directors. The election will be at the next member meeting (Saturday, October 18, 3pm).

If anyone is curious about running for the board and would like to know more, post your questions here!

Remember: Every board position is open every year. Here are the rules:

1. Any member, Full or Supporting, can nominate any other member, Full or Supporting including him or herself.
2. Nominations can be declined so it helps to consult them first.

There are 7 slots on the Board of Directors. You can nominate anyone for any slot.
1. President
2. Vice President
3. Treasurer
4. Secretary
5. Director
6. Director
7. Director

(Bonus Note: Once elected to the board, you can officially decide what you want your title to be. We had one President officially change their title to Sir Makes-A-Lot.)

From our Bylaws:
Nominations for officers and directors shall be open for no less than fourteen days prior to elections. Nominations can be made to any board member by any full or supporting member. Officers shall be elected or re-elected at the annual meeting by a simple majority of all current full members. Directors with specific responsibilities will be elected in the same way as officers. Director positions without specific responsibilities will be pooled and elected as a group. If a vote does not result in a simple majority for a single person the person with the least number of votes will be eliminated and a revote will immediately be called.

[Brad Freese]

I'll start by nominating the amazing and humble Brad Freese for Secretary!

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[Brad Freese]

I'd like to thank me for nominating myself and respond that I greatfully accept the nomination to Secretary.

My campaign slogan for this year: "Vote me for Secretary, and the Earth will probably not crash into the Sun!"

Thank you!

[John Whiteman]

Thank you for getting this started Brad, I fully support the Earth probably not crashing into the Sun. 

I will nominate myself for another term as a Director. 

[Brett Neese]

Note and aside: do not click that link; someone has decided to fill the old domain with spammy BS (I'm currently assisting my space in Arizona with updating our bylaws so was curious what Area515's looked like, and I highly doubt they include me being a winner of a new iPhone). 

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[John Whiteman]

Brett, Thanks for catching and pointing that out. Here is the link you are looking for:

https://legal.desmoinesmaker.space/