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For our Board meeting, I'd offer up these items to include: ED Report: - report on Board Member interviews Old Business: - Bylaws: a review of any outstanding issues. If legal review raises any later, we can deal with those then, but I see no reason not to pursue a tentative agreement on the document as is. New Business - Formalize John Hoyt's selection as Secretary - Agree on replacement plan for Therese's Board seat - Goal setting (see the Jerry's Musings document as a jumping off point) - Review goals we set last February - Draft preliminary agenda for 2/28 Board meeting: Decide on three strategic problems to tackle. Thanks for considering.

I think the board members should be doing board member interviews NOT Moira! This is a board member issue, not an executive director function. I would be happy to reach out to prospective members once we have discussed the issues on Thursday.

Jeff, I think you're mixing tow separate items. the ""Board Member interviews"" in he ED report is the result of Moira's interviews of US over a couple months. I picked back up from the minutes of the Nov meeting. Interviewing candidates to replace Therese's Board position is a different issue. We haven't yet defined how we want that process to look. We should start with the several sentences referencing it in the proposed Bylaws and go from there. We went through a lot in Nov, and I had to read those Minutes to remember important items discussed, decided or deferred for my post today. I also had to refresh my memory by reviewing my ""Musings"" post. My memory is too creaky; too easy to confuse and overlook important items.

Jerry's right the Board member interviews have nothing to do with Secretary slot. If you are going to jump over the lawyer review on bylaws then - Section 1. Purpose and Nominations. The Nominating Committee offers nominations to fill openings on the Board of Directors. Its membership shall consist of five (5) Consultant Members **appointed by the Executive Director** and approved by the Board of Directors **after modification, if necessary**

actually, the relevant part in Article VI is: Section 3. Vacancies. Any vacancy occurring on the Board of Directors prior to the expiration of a term shall be filled by such person as shall be elected by the remaining members of the Board of Directors. A Director so elected to fill a vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired term of his/her predecessor in office.

FWIW, I'm not proposing to ""jump over the lawyer review."" I think we should first be clear that we are all agreed on the current contents, or what we should consider changing at the same time as we handle concerns passed back by the lawyer.

Thanks Jerry for the Agenda suggestions, I appreciate you stepping in and helping out. With MOTM prep and my day job it has been a CRAZY 2 months. In speaking with Moira, we going to table her finding with the interview with each director, Her focus has been Affiliates and Committee issues and she needs time to assemble her notes. I agree that we are very close on the by-laws although I want to discuss some specifics with you prior to the meeting. (Sorry for the edits I hit Post too quick!!)

@JerryNorman I made some edits to my previous entry. I hit the post button too quick.. Let me when you are available to discuss the bylaws.

Jim, anytime tomorrow or Wed, except 1-2 CT, is good.

Regarding the Board member interviews - I was simply putting up what had been explicitly pushed from Nov. Another bump won't hurt much..

Oops, never mind!!!!