Petition Process Open for Additional Board Candidates

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As announced last week, the American Booksellers Association’s Board of Directors has named three director candidates to stand for election this spring to three-year terms (2014 - 2017) on the Board:

Their names will appear on the Board ballot to be sent to ABA members via e-mail at the end of March, 60 days prior to the May 29 Annual Membership Meeting at the Javits Convention Center during BookExpo America.

Under ABA’s Bylaws, in addition to candidates put forth by the Nominating Committee and approved by the Board, any bookstore member may submit a petition for a director candidate. Upon receipt of a valid petition, the ABA Nominating Committee will add the petitioned candidate’s name to the director ballot.

Should bookstore members wish to submit a petition, the following requirements must be met:

  • A candidate must be an employee or owner of an ABA member bookstore. The member bookstore must be in good standing, and the individual candidate must have at least three years’ experience in a bookstore-member company
  • Each petition can present only one candidate.
  • All petitions must be submitted by March 3, 2014, to the Chair, ABA Nominating Committee, c/o ABA, 333 Westchester Avenue, Suite S202, White Plains, New York 10604.
  • The names on the petition in support of the candidate must reflect at least two percent of ABA Bookstore Members as of January 1, 2014; that is a minimum of 25 signatures. The petition must contain original signatures and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of bookstore members in at least five states, with representatives of no one state constituting more than 50 percent of the total number of petition signatures.

Upon receipt of a valid petition, the Nominating Committee will add the candidate’s name to the ballot sent to ABA membership.

 

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