Cardelle: On Being Elected to the Nominating Committee of APHA's Governing Council
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| Alberto Cardelle (left) Photo courtesy Tom Piper | At the 2007 Annual Meeting, I had the honor of being nominated and elected to the Nominating Committee of APHA’s Governing Council. The Nominating Committee is made of 11 Governing Council members
and is responsible for the nominations of APHA officers. It is composed of the president and the executive director as non-voting members and nine voting members of the Governing Council. The Committee serves from the time of its election until the reading of the Committee report at the first regularly scheduled session of the Governing Council at the next Annual Meeting.
The Nominating Committee identifies interested APHA members who want to be nominated and run for president of the association and for Executive Board membership. APHA's Executive Board is a 24-member body that serves on behalf of the Governing Council and meets regularly throughout the year to discuss Association business. The Executive Board carries out established Association policies and adopts interim public policy between meetings of the Governing Council. It assures proper direction for the administrative work of the Association, it acts as trustee of all Association resources, it reviews and coordinates the recommendations of Association boards and committees, and it has responsibility for specific membership functions relating to election, finances and termination.
The Committee is also charged with ensuring that all of the Association’s constituencies have an equitable opportunity to become involved in the Association’s governance. Each Committee member identifies specific constituencies that they will contact and work with at identifying individuals interested in serving. As a member of the CHPPD Section I not only reach out to members of our section but also to caucuses and special interest groups that have historically not been represented in the Association’s governance structure. I will work with our section’s leadership to identify members of our section interested in being nominated for office, but I also encourage any of our members interested in serving in any of these important capacities to contact me at acardelle@po-box.esu.edu .
I was elected to the Committee by first running for Governing Council within our section. I was nominated because of my work with our section and my work with a caucus of which I am a member. And finally I was elected by the Governing Council because of the hard work of my fellow CHPPD governing councilors campaigned for me within the general council. The opportunity to meet a diverse set of individuals through the work of the Section and the caucuses is the best way of getting involved in APHA.
By Alberto Cardelle, CHPPD Governing Councilor
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