<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The articles say:<div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 102, 17); font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">At the first Annual General Meeting and at any Annual General Meting to be held in any subsequent year, one-third of the members of the Board for the time being, or if their number is not a multiple of three then the number nearest to one-third, shall retire form office.<p>The members of the Board to retire shall be those who have been longest in office since their last election or appointment. As between members of equal seniority, the members to retire shall in the absence of agreement be selected from among them by lot. The length of time a member has been in office shall be computed from his last election or appointment. A retiring member of the Board shall be eligible for re-election."</p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">What this means is that the entire Board don't actually have to retire - its not related to the Chairman's role at all. What has been happening is that 6/7 of the board have been retiring, rather than 1/3. This had been overlooked until the most recent Board meeting, at which we realised that only 1/3 of the 7 person board need to retire. As we were voted in under the understanding that, apart from the chairman, we were serving one year terms we all felt it would be misleading to now say that 2/3 of us actually want to stay on for 3 years. So all of the Board will be retiring and standing for re-election - entirely within the terms of the Articles, but not exactly what they intend. In the future, we'll follow the articles and 1/3 of the Board will retired. As we are going to review the articles though, and as this is a hot topic in the community I expect there to be quite a bit of community debate around this.</span></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">--</span></font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal;">Nick</span></font></p><p><br></p><p><br></p></span><div><div>On 4 Aug 2009, at 09:42, Frederik Ramm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Grant Slater wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">The chairman role is currently a 3 year term, may I propose that we<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">halve the length of this term to 1.5 years (transition overlap) or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">alternatively a single year term in line with the rest of the board.<br></blockquote><br>RichardF quoted the Articles of Association:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The Board shall from time to time elect a Chairman who shall be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">entitled to preside at all meetings of the Board at which he shall<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">be present, and may determine for what period he is to hold office<br></blockquote><br>If this is correct (i.e. chairman chosen by board) then obviously the <br>chairman can only be a one-year term because nobody knows whether <br>whomever they make chairman will still be a member of the board after <br>the next election!<br><br>Bye<br>Frederik<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>osmf-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Nick Black</div><div>twitter.com/nick_b</div><div><a href="mailto:nick@blacksworld.net">nick@blacksworld.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>