We will hold our annual members meeting 16 MAR at the new SGC location. We will review programs and events in 2023 and share financial info and space planning info. We will also vote to approve a slate of three directors who will serve a three-year term. Each year, three of the nine directors' terms expire.
We need 14 voting members (annual or lifetime) as a quorum. If you cannot make the meeting, you can email manager@seattlego.org to register a proxy for yourself (notification goes to the secretary for recording). We appreciate your naming proxies to ensure we have quorum for the meeting.
This year, we are grateful that Oren Laskin and Chris Kirschner (both very long serving directors) volunteered to be directors again, and they will be on the slate of candidates. Sadly, Solomon needs more personal time, but we are grateful for his several terms of service.
The board is excited to nominate Saki Umezaki to the slate of candidates. Saki is a native Japanese speaker and mother of Ayumu, and she brings a few points of diversity to the board. Saki and Ayumu both have been coming to SGC for a while now and donated several Hikaru No Go books to complete our Japanese collection. Saki learned to play Go when she was 10 years old, when her family moved, and she discovered her neighbor was a Nihon Ki-in professional. She taught Ayumu to play Go. In Japan, Saki worked in IT sales, but now she is a full-time mom and studying to be a CPA.
Members can nominate other candidates if seven or more members nominate someone prior to 06 MAR. This gives the board time to approve the candidates and possibly to work with folks to have a slate of three candidates for much simpler voting at the meeting. If seven voting members want to nominate a candidate, please send mail to manager@seattlego.org prior to 06 MAR.
Cheers,
Bill
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