Appointment of Board Members.

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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 20:28:48 -0400,
>  Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The other question that this raises is the timing of the appointments.
>> Having one seat appointed prior to the election cycle doesn't strike
>> me as furthering the goal of ensuring the diversity of the newly
>> elected Board. The diversity of the current Board can be taken into
>> account when making the choice, but you have no idea what the
>> composition of the new board is going to be. Balancing it after the
>> election seems to me to be the right thing to do.
>
> This seems like a no-brainer change to me.
> Currently there isn't a good way to vote for diversity. If I want one of
> two FESCO representatives to be on the board, but don't really care much
> which and don't want both, I don't have a good way to express that preference.
> Having the FPL fix things up after the election (particularly if diversity
> is explicitly one of the factors to base the decision on) goes a long way
> toward fixing that problem.

This is really a different discussion and one I take the opposite view
on. I would rather the community have the final word and in the past
three elections if I'm not mistaken the post election appointment was
the 1st runner up. We might as well have just elected that seat.

John