[mk_page_section video_loop=”false” padding_top=”0″ padding_bottom=”0″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column][mk_fancy_title strip_tags=”true” font_family=”none” el_class=”title-left page-title”]Elections Committees[/mk_fancy_title][/vc_column][/mk_page_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1770″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text el_class=”banner-text-header”] Chair: Marisa Gallippi, Christina Meynell
Members: Andrea Constantin, Lisa DeSantis, Rob Fulford, Sophie Kroesen[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”committee-sub-title”][mk_fancy_title strip_tags=”true” size=”” margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]Terms of Reference[/mk_fancy_title][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][mk_page_section margin_bottom=”15″ sidebar=”sidebar-1″][vc_column width=”2/3″ offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-2″][vc_column_text el_class=”box-border”]
- To recommend guidelines to the Local Executive for Executive Elections, By-Elections and ETFO Annual Meeting Delegate Election Candidates in accordance with the Local’s Constitution.
- To recommend to the Executive a nomination form for Executive Elections outlining the responsibilities and requirements of each Executive position.
- To recommend to the Executive the appointment of an Elections Officer, who shall not be a member of the Local. Such appointment shall be approved by Executive motion.
- To recommend to the Executive Guidelines and Responsibilities for the Elections Officer.
- To ensure the Executive adhere to constitutional timelines for both nomination and election processes in any elections.
- To arrange for the ballots to be distributed, collected, and counted at By-Elections and ETFO Annual Meeting Delegate Elections.
- To ensure the ballots from all Executive Elections, By-Elections and ETFO Annual Meeting Delegate Elections are destroyed, in the presence of the Elections Officer and the Local President, 30 days after the conclusion of such elections.
- To arrange for a location for the opening and counting of the ballots for Executive Elections by the Elections Officer, in the presence of candidates or scrutineers, on a date no later than two weeks prior to the Local’s AGM.
- To review the elections procedures each year to ensure a fair, impartial, confidential Elections process and make recommendations to the Executive if necessary.
- To ensure the Executive publishes and distributes to members an Executive Election ballot package with a profile for each Executive Election candidate, should such a profile be received from the candidate(s).
- To ensure the Executive includes business reply mail postage envelopes with the Executive Elections ballot package.
- To ensure the Executive arranges for the return of mailed Executive Election ballots to a third-party address that is a secure, impartial location.
- To ensure the Executive announces to the membership the results of all Local Elections, with the specific vote count, within the timelines set out in the Local Constitution.
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