Whereas The Employee-elected Trustee is an integral part of campus governance, and

Whereas candidates for the position of Employee-elected Trustee should be considered viable candidates based on issues, ideas, and vision, and

Whereas potential candidates may be hindered and intimidated by having to solicit other employees to fill a petition, and

Whereas viable candidates may be employed in small offices, or off campus, and

Whereas The EA charter states:

Article 5: Elections shall be conducted by the EA Internal Operations Committee (IOC). The formalities of the nominations and elections process will be held to a minimum, so as to encourage as many employees as possible to run. The IOC will develop specific guidelines to accomplish this, avoiding any procedure that would tend to intimidate employees or discourage them from participating. The content of petition and forms and the length of the petitioning period should be among those items considered.

And,

Whereas the goal of the IOC should be to facilitate the elections process in such a way that there exists and ample roster of viable candidates based on issues, ideas, and vision, and not the number of people that sign a petition.

Be it therefore recommended that the IOC change the current requirement of having candidates produce a petition with Two-hundred (200) signatures, to a less encumbered requirement of a petition of fifty (50) signatures.

Respectfully submitted,

Michael V. Esposito

The resolution failed by unanimous consent by the Employee Assembly on May 19, 1999.