[Osmf-talk] Board term limits and term lengths

[Kate Chapman]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:49 AM, Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>
wrote:

> On Friday 21 April 2017, Kate Chapman wrote:
> > Personally, I'd be in favor or changing the term lengths (and
> > possibly adding term limits). I think it would be beneficial to know
> > when you vote for someone how long their term is actually going to
> > be. Sure people can resign, but there are ways to handle that.
> >
> > Have 2 year terms explicitly for the board members. That way we could
> > alternate between 3 and 4 being elected and have some continuity.
>
> The disadvantage of any such construct is that it is not self regulating
> like the current system.  If members resign ahead of schedule (which
> has happend in the past in quite a few cases) you can end up with many,
> in extreme cases even all board members being up for election at the
> same time.
>

There are ways to manage that though. For example if someone resigns early
than someone could run under a 1 year term to replace them. Though we'd
then need to think through exactly what the term limit would be.

-Kate


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