Makoto Nozaki Appointed Secretary
Thu, 02-Mar-2017 by
Jim Brandt
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<, Makoto's employer, has also provided donations to TPF for which we are very grateful.
A focus for us this year is bringing new people into TPF at all levels, and adding a new member to the board as a replacement for Karen Pauley is part of that effort. Thank you to Karen for all of her years of service on the board. As part of his role, Makoto will be taking on some projects to help us get the community more involved.
One important project scheduled for this year is to launch an updated and more public process for nominating and appointing new board members. TPF isn't a membership organization, so this doesn't mean we'll have elections. However, we would like to get the community involved in nominations and to have an opportunity to ask questions and interact with prospective board members as part of the evaluation process.
Once we have a new process in place for bringing in new board members, we plan to add more structure around the 2 year terms defined in the TPF bylaws. Currently board members have held their seats until they step down, typically because of time constraints. We would like to revise this process such that at the end of a 2 year term, existing board members will actively seek out another 2 year term if they would like to continue to serve.
These initiatives are at the idea phase right now and there are many details to work out to define the actual processes for both. We look forward to working these out with Makoto's active work over the next year.
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