Greetings!

This is your official notification re: Sudo Mesh's required annual board meeting, to take place in two weeks:

Tuesday, May 22nd @ 7pm @ Omni Commons (4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland CA)

A draft of the meeting agenda can be viewed here: https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/2018annualmtg

Nominations for officers and directors are now open. Requirements of the directors are, formally:

SECTION 3. DUTIES

It shall be the duty of the directors to:

(a) Perform any and all duties imposed on them collectively or individually by law, by the Articles of Incorporation of this corporation, or by these Bylaws;

(b) Appoint and remove, employ and discharge, and, except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, prescribe the duties and the compensation, if any, of all officers, agents and employees of the corporation;

(c) Supervise all officers, agents and employees of the corporation to assure that their duties are performed properly;

(d) Meet at such times and places as required by these Bylaws;

(e) Register their telephone numbers and email addresses with the Secretary of the corporation and notices of meetings mailed, made by telephone or emailed to them at such addresses shall be valid notices thereof.

...as outlined in our organizational Bylaws.

Jenny nominates:
* Marc Juul (current Director)
* Mai Sutton
* Ben
* Grant (current Director)
* Jorrit Poelen (current Director)
* Lesley Bell (current President)
* Benny Lichter
* Ben Goering
* Will Martin (current Secretary)
* Sierk Beij
* Robb Benson
* Eve Edelson
* Seth
* Blake
* Daniel
* Arthur Tilley
* Jehan Tremback (current Director)
* Jenny Ryan (current Treasurer)
... which is a board of 18 directors (our bylaws state a max of 19) - kind of a lot but we have a lot of folks who've been committed and participating regularly for nearly or over a year at this point!

Vote to remove due to inactivity / indirect involvement with the organization (no offense guyz):
* Jake
* Andrew Dollard

Please reply to this thread or privately if you do not wish to serve on the Board. All: you may nominate yourselves or others in addition to my nominations for directors, as well as officers (currently President, Secretary and Treasurer). Officers may also be re-elected. Current officers are Lesley (President), Will (Secretary), and me (Jenny, Treasurer).

The organizational budget can be viewed at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJetruKfHrO5bpaLDk_smXYpLSvGlzytda_6koMjlCc/edit#gid=170992763

We will also vote on establishing one or more committees, namely:
If you cannot attend the meeting in person but would like to participate, remote participation is possible - just send a followup reply to this email!

<3
Jenny

Help open a professional kitchen at the Omni Commons in Oakland!
https://omnicommons.org/kitchen

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