Slate of Candidates – 2010

To - Sara Wallick - Honorary Secretary
From – Rifky Mackeen – Chair – Nominating Committee
Subject – Slate of Candidates – 2010
Date – August 18, 2010

I am enclosing the final slate of candidates which are being recommended by the Nominating Committee for consideration this even year. Resumes as submitted by the aspirants are available in all three of the USA communication channels – Blog, Website and Magazine (upcoming -September/October issue).

As the footnote indicates – “Although our due diligence included review of the resumes, telephone “interviews” when warranted and our knowledge of the candidate’s competency and credentials; we have assumed that they are all members in good standing. We have not verified if they have any disqualifications which will make them ineligible to serve.”

We have been totally objective in our decision process and to the best of our ability, have attempted to ensure that the listed candidates meet with the requirements of the specific posts for which they have indicated an interest.

We have not ranked the aspirants for the position of Directors at Large and have submitted all eight names, in alpha order. This we considered to be appropriate as two members of the Nominating Committee are also vying for the four available positions and we wished to preclude even the perception of conflict.

In the case of the Board of Inquiry, we have, this year, ranked the aspirants as five will actually serve and the other five will be alternates.

Notwithstanding our intent and our effort, we remain cognizant that our Slate of Candidates is only a recommendation for consideration by the membership. Additional names can and will be submitted from the floor.

Such that the USA can make progress in these challenging times, we hope that the best candidate(s) get elected for the various position(s) even if they decided to circumvent the Nominating Committee channel and go directly to the membership for consideration.

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Even Year (2010) Nominations - proposed by the Nominating Committee ____________________________________________________________

President (One position)

Based on our due diligence which also included an “interview” with the two candidates; we were of the opinion that both candidates are viable and should be considered by the membership.

Levin, Mathew

Roetemeyer, Lyle

Vice-President (One position)

Groh, Craig

Secretary (One position)

Brigham, Nancy

Treasurer (One position)

O'Kane, Sean

Director of Judges (One position)

Roque, Nathaniel

National Breed Warden (One position)

Burke, Tim

Director at Large (Four positions)

Such as to avoid even a perception of conflict given that two members of the Nominating Committee are also vying for the available positions we show all aspirants in alpha order.

Alloway, Jim

Govednik, Al

Grewe, Johannes

Iyer, Ravi

Moacanin, Kathy

Ptaszek, Mark

Weller, Marie

Williams, Mike


Auditing (Three positions)

Ackerman, Raye Lynn

Shea, Beth

Taves, Kris


World Championship Committee (Four positions)

Franz, Dale

Hanrahan, Gary

Jaquin, Lisa

Volrath, Thomas

Judges Committee (One position)

Griffith, Carla

Board of Inquiry (Ten positions - Ten candidates)

Based on our due diligence including an “interview” with all ten aspirants, we have ranked them in order of our preference for the consideration of the membership.

Members

1 Wallick, Sara

2 Gardner, Mike

3 Bochenek, John

4 Sansbury, Trish

5 Murphy, Sean

Alternates

6 Roberts, Steve

7 Windus, Cathi

8 Coppola, Laurie

9 Matarrese, Lisa

10 Graf, Molly

Note – Although our due diligence included review of the resumes, telephone “interviews” when warranted and our knowledge of the candidate’s competency and credentials; we have assumed that they are all members in good standing. We have not verified if they have any disqualifications which will make them ineligible to serve.

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