Agenda for February 19 Membership Meeting

1.  Call to Order

    The meeting shall be called to order at 6:00 p.m. PST,
    Thursday, February 19, 1998.  The meeting will be held
    via IRC on the Guild's #hwg channel.

2.  Determination of Quorum

    The secretary shall record the attendance of the plus
    members present, including those present via proxy votes.
    A quorum of 10% of the voting membership is required; as
    there are 877 "plus" members as of January 31, 1998, at
    least 88 votes must be present for the meeting to continue,
    in the form of either pre-registered proxies, or Plus
    members who have not submitted a proxy via the web.

3.  Voting on Governing Board Members

    A.  Candidates

        There are currently three (3) positions on the Governing
        Board up for election at this meeting.  The candidates
        for those positions are:

        Frederick J. Barnett           Tarik Dozier
        Susan Duncan                    Peter Knaggs
        Demitrius Lopez               Jimmie McWhirt
        Johnny Mo                       Gerald Oskoboiny
        Tanya Spain                      Richard Tuttle

    B.  Eligible Voters

        Only paid members at the "plus" level, as of January 31,
        1998, are eligible to vote.  Members who have already
        registered a proxy ballot via voting on the Guild's
        voting web site are not required to attend the meeting,
        and may not issue a second vote in addition to their
        pre-recorded proxy.

        Members who are eligible to vote who have not registered
        a proxy may vote at the meeting, but must be prepared to
        verify their plus member status, by having ready their
        HWG member id, password, and other identifying infor-
        mation.

    C.  Counting of Votes

        Each member may vote for up to three candidates.  The
        top three candidates receiving at least a majority
        (50% plus 1) vote based upon the number of members
        voting will be elected to the Governing Board.  The
        results of the vote will be announced by the Secretary
        when the votes are verified (which may take place
        after the meeting).  Voting results will be announced
        on the hwg-ops mailing list, on the Guild's website
        at http://www.hwg.org/election1998/, and in the next
        hwg-news newsletter.

4.  Adjournment

    The meeting will be adjourned by a motion to adjourn and 
    successful informal vote on the adjournment motion.


Charlotte Crothers
Secretary, HTML Writers Guild

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