[Advisors] CIRA elections now on

[Marita Moll]

Hello all.  If you are a CIRA member you should have received a request 
to vote for your preferred candidate in the CIRA board elections that 
just opened. There is a new procedure and your notice will have included 
a voter ID and PIN number (which I'm assuming is unique to everyone).  
You can vote for three candidates on the nomcom slate and one on the 
member's slate.  See also news release: 
http://www.cira.ca/news/announcements/members-vote/

Thanks to all of you who supported me in the previous stage of this 
election my name is on the members slate.  Kevin McArthur, who I 
suggested we should support last year is also on the list.  Kevin was 
only elected for a one year term (replacing a board member who had to 
resign), has already gone through one year of the learning curve and 
done really good work on the board on our behalf with respect to the 
newly announced Community Investment Fund.  A regular term on the board 
is 3 years.

So, when making your decision on the member slate, please also take a 
good look at Kevin's platform.  I am in touch with him regularly and we 
are running against each other on friendly terms.  We are hoping to have 
both of us on that board within two years.

Whoever you vote for, please exercise your right to vote.  CIRA belongs 
to all of us.

Marita