ITEM:		ACTION ITEM
3.	CONSIDER NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR FOR 2005 AND CONDUCT ELECTIONS FOR BOARD OFFICERS
Meeting Date:			December 27, 2004	Budgeted:	N/A
From:			David A. Berger,	Program/	N/A
			General Manager	Line Item No.:
Prepared By:			Arlene Tavani	Cost Estimate:	N/A
General Counsel Approval: N/A
Committee Recommendation: N/A
CEQA Compliance: N/A

SUMMARY: This item was originally scheduled to be considered at the December 13, 2004 Board meeting. However, Director Pendergrass was unable to attend that meeting and Director Edwards participated by telephone. The item was continued to December 27, 2004 so that all seven directors would be present for the election.

Meeting Rule No. 2 specifies that in December of each year, the Board of Directors shall select a Chair, Vice-Chair, a Treasurer and a Secretary. The officers elected at the meeting will assume their positions following the December Board meeting. The term of office is twelve months. The text of Meeting Rule No. 2 (adopted in December 2001) is shown below.

RECOMMENDATION: The Board should nominate and elect officers for calendar year 2005. It has been the Board’s past practice to elect the General Manager to serve as Secretary and the Administrative Services Manager to serve as Treasurer, and continuation of that practice is recommended for 2005.

RULE 2: ELECTION OF BOARD OFFICERS

At the first meeting in the month of December of each year, the Board of Directors shall elect a Chair, Vice-Chair, a Treasurer, and a Secretary. The agenda for the December meeting will list the election of Board officers as the last item for consideration that evening. The officers elected in December will assume their positions after the December Board meeting. Rotation of the chair shall be encouraged. At the first meeting after a vacancy occurs in any office, an election shall be conducted to fill that vacancy. If both the Chair and Vice-Chair are absent, the directors in attendance shall select a presiding officer to conduct that meeting

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