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**Type of report being submitted: Committee Planning Report
**Date: 8/15/05
**Committee Name: Nominating
**Supervising Board Member: Sally Gibson
**Chair, Co-Chairs, Assistant Chairs: Erin Ellis
**Committee members: Christiana French, Jessica Hutchings
**Committee Charge: To secure and prepare a slate of candidates for NMRT's annual election. According to the bylaws, "to prepare for an election held in odd numbered years, a slate for Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and two Directors," and "In even numbered years a slate for Vice-President, Secretary, and two Directors." Additionally, the committee will hold a Candidate Forum for the candidates to express their statements of concerns as well as allowing members to ask questions. This forum will be held online and at the Midwinter Meeting.
**2005 - 2006 Project Description / Goals: Identify offices to be vacated; solicit nominations and recommendations for vacant offices; submit a slate of candidates to the NMRT Executive Board for approval; collect biographical information on candidates, prepare ballots, and communicate with candidates; work with the Governance Committee to include Constitution and Bylaws changes on the ballot, along with candidate information; sponsor online and in-person candidate forums; maintain web page on the NMRT site with candidate information.
**Specific Objectives (numbers, tangible end-products):
Financial Report Section:
Your budget appropriation (see budget) |
a. |
Amount which you have spent so far this year |
b. |
Your estimated additional expenses this year |
c. |
Total of amount spent and additional
"estimated" expenses for this year (b+c) |
d. |
Difference between budgeted amount and total expenses
from above (a-d) |
e. |
f. Vendor support planned or anticipated for the year (either money or in-kind gifts), list here: None
g. Vendor support requested: (From the above list, what, if any, has been requested from the Exhibitor Contact and Relations Committee?) None
h. Vendor support received: (From the above list, what if any, has been received?) None
Specific Needs/Support (non-financial): (For the categories below, please include approximate date service needed)
a. Web Support (help with webpage creation, web form creation, web database, web database, scripting, etc): Last year's chair suggested that web page information be handled directly by the Nominating cmte so that the Web cmte doesn't have to deal with several changes in a limited amount of time.
b. On-site conference volunteers: (include estimated numbers needed and brief job description) None
c. Publicity planned for the committee (posting to other discussion lists, official press release for webpage, etc.): News release to Footnotes soliciting nominations; posting to listservs soliciting nominations and recommendations; announcement of online and in-person forums on listservs; candidate information submitted to Footnotes, listservs, and NMRT website; news release to Footnotes on election results and posted to web site.
**Report submitted by: Erin Ellis
**Email address: eellis@ku.edu