Jon writes:
>
>         As many of you already know, we have two open board
> positions since John
> Marrah and Chris Miller resigned last fall.  It is up to the
> discretion of
> the remaining board members to select replacements for these
> two open seats.
> However, since this is a community control organization we
> would like to
> have some discussion and feedback about who you might like to
> see in these
> two open seats.
>
>         So, can we have some suggestions from the community
> and reason why you feel
> these people might make good board members?  After about a
> week or two of
> discussion we will take the suggestions under advisement and contact
> potential candidates to see if they would be willing to take
> on this role.
> Depending on the timing of the selection, there may be
> references in future
> meeting minutes, but the official announcement will be at the
> Annual OpenMPE
> Membership meeting that will be held at the East Coast
> Solution Symposium in
> March (and then reflected in a session at the West Coast Solution
> Symposium).
>

As I recall, when the original Board was created there was an effort to have
a number of constituencies represented. Is this still desired by the
remaining Board members? In which case, perhaps you could enlighten us on
the remaining Board members and their "constituencies" and the
"constituencies" of the resigned Board members?

John Burke