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Nominations & Elections
The business and property of the Association are managed and controlled by the Board of Directors. Regional Clubs are asked to submit recommendations to the nominating committee annually. Directors are then elected by the APHA members by mail or online ballot. There are approximately 100 directors and about 55 alternate directors who only vote if they are officially replacing an absent director. The Board of Directors elects and empowers the Executive Committee.
DIRECTOR ALLOCATIONS
APHA rules state that the Association should have approximately 115 directors. One-half of the directors from each representative area are elected annually and hold office for a term of two years. The APHA office shall determine annually if it shall be necessary for any specific number of directors from a representative area to be elected for a term of only one year. To determine the number of directors that need to be elected in a year, APHA divides the total number of members, as of December 31 of the preceding year, by 100. That number is then divided by the number of members in the representative area. The result is the number of directors a representative area may have.
Elections are based on the number of director allocations to which a representative area is entitled. Keep in mind that some directors are elected to a two-year term of office while others are elected to a one-year term. Directors are elected to fill only the open positions. A representative area is determined mathematically according to the number of members in each state. If one state does not have enough members to be a representative area, then two or more states are combined to form one.
ELECTION PROCEDURES
The Director Nominating Committee prepares the ballots for the director election, taking into consideration individual self recommendations (which may be made by obtaining the signatures of five APHA members in good standing), recommendations from Regional Clubs (forms are mailed to club secretaries) and any recommendations from members of the Nominating Committee.
To remain eligible as a director, the representative must attend one-half of the required APHA Directors meetings per 12-month period. Failing to do this, the director may be replaced at the discretion of the President. (For complete details about the allocation and election procedure, consult the Official APHA Rule Book, Article III.)