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2025 Annual General Meeting - Call for Nominations and Proposals
2025-05-09 16:41:34 by Lindsay Fitzpatrick
Dear friends
This email concerns: a) nominations for positions on the Board of Directors; and b) proposals to host our 2027 Annual Meeting.
a) Nominations:
The CBS invites nominations for several positions within the CBS Board of Directors. Nominations are being sought for the positions of President-Elect, 2 Senior Board Members (2025 - 2027 term), and one Student Board Representative (2025 - 2026 term). Nominations will be accepted by email before May 20, 11:59 pm EST, as well as in person/online at the AGM.
If you are a current CBS member and would like to nominate someone for the President-Elect, Senior or Student Board of Directors’ positions in advance of the AGM, please send an email to Lindsay Fitzpatrick (current President-Elect) at lindsay.fitzpatrick@queensu.ca and Patricia Comeau (current Secretary) at patricia.comeau@concordia.ca, indicating your support for their nomination, the nominee's full name and email address as well as the name and email address of another CBS member who will have accepted to second the nomination. Advance nominations are strongly encouraged to streamline the nomination process during the AGM; however, nominations will also be accepted during the AGM. Please note that the nomination process will close at the AGM.
All nominees will be contacted, either by direct call at the AGM or by email following the AGM, to verify their acceptance of the nomination. If there are more candidates than positions, the candidates will be asked to provide a maximum 250-word statement regarding their vision for CBS. Subsequently, all CBS members will be sent detailed information for an online election in June. If there are not more nominations than positions, then the candidates will be elected by acclamation without the need of an online election.
b) Proposals for CBS2027:
The Board of Directors invites senior CBS members to express their interest to host the 41th Annual Meeting in 2027. At this stage, please email Lindsay Fitzpatrick (lindsay.fitzpatrick@queensu.ca) and Patricia Comeau (patricia.comeau@concordia.ca) to indicate your interest in hosting the annual meeting before the AGM. If we receive more than one notification of interest, interested parties will be invited to give a brief proposal presentation to the membership, after which a vote will be held online.
Thank you in advance for your interest!
Best regards,
Lindsay Fitzpatrick
President-Elect
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