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On 5/3/2015 4:14 PM, Riley Martinez-Lynch wrote:
> I want to confirm that I am indeed volunteering to serve as
> Secretary/Treasurer.

There having been no other volunteers, Riley is the only candidate.  If 
there is objection to his becoming the new Secretary/Treasurer, please 
post prior to end of day Tuesday.  If there is no such objection, he 
will be considered elected.

>> This needs further clarification like what citizenship (what city
>> etc.) is needed for becoming President. If no one else is from
>> Virginia I think maybe something needs to be changed to allow people
>> from other states to become presidents (although it'd be probably
>> important to still limit to the USA).
>
> lojbab, please correct me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think there is
> any requirement that the officers (with one exception) be citizens of
> the United States. I know that Arnt Johansen was president from
> 2005-2008, and Veijo Vilva has been the vice president since 2010: I
> believe both live in Scandinavia, and if they are U.S. citizens, it's
> news to me.

Riley is correct.  There is no reason for requiring any officer to be an 
American citizen.

There is some reason for at least one officer with signature authority 
to be strongly familiar with US business and tax concepts, because we 
have various requirements to legally stay in business.  That person 
needs to speak up in Board/member discussions of policy to make sure 
that any policies being considered stay on the proper side of the law 
for an organization of our type.

> Regarding the office of Virginia Registered Agent, I agree that is a
> longer term concern for the organization.

It is and Riley's proposal below is something I have considered as well, 
though it is not necessary so long as I remain active.  I remember 
looking up in the Virginia Code (which is online) to see what the 
requirements are, and I believe my conclusion at the time was that the 
agent had to be a Board member in order to be able to fill the role 
properly.  That may not actually be the case - I'm not an expert - but 
that is why the Virginia representative is ex officio a Board member in 
the current Bylaws.

I don't think we need a Bylaw change in order to hire a registered 
agent.  S/he just automatically becomes a member of the Board under the 
current Bylaws.  If we were to determine that the Registered Agent does 
not really need to be a Board member, that would require a Bylaw change.

>>     I am willing to serve one more year as President, or as Vice
>>     President if the Board prefers.  But I strongly desire that at
>>     least one person step forward as now-or-future President to fill
>>     the other position.  If I am President, I will be calling on this
>>     person as VP to exercise several leadership activities in the
>>     coming year, including regular participation in IRC and reporting
>>     to the Board on what the community wants LLG to do.
>
> I don't want to pre-empt anyone who has a presidential candidate in
> mind, but I think this is a good plan: To re-elect lojbab to the
> presidency, and to elect a vice president who is open to taking on the
> presidential role later. In any case, I think that the board should
> adopt as a goal this year to recognize and/or cultivate candidates
> suited to taking on these responsibilities.

I need to stress this more strongly, I want the vice president to be 
someone willing to be visibly out there in the community doing the 
leadership that I haven't been up to (and communicating what is going on 
to the rest of us on the Board).  In effect, this is taking on some of 
the presidential role NOW (under my delegation), and not later as Riley 
seems to suggest.  The person in question can choose just how fast they 
want to assume responsibility (so as not to be overwhelmed), but I want 
to have the Board (and that primarily means the VP) much more visible to 
the community at large in the coming year, and I demonstrably can't do it.

Part of that increased language promotion I mentioned in my statement 
involves giving the community of Lojbanists and potential Lojbanists the 
idea that there is in fact a serious organization backing the language.

As I said to gleki, I will respond after the officer elections are done, 
on the members list, to comments about the vision and goals that I 
posted in my statement.

lojbab

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