Call for Candidates for 2018 AMHA Board of Directors

As outlined in AMHA bylaw 4.6 "By April 1st of each year, the Executive Director shall deliver to each member entitled to vote in the regions in which Directors are to be elected in the upcoming annual meeting of members a notice stating the number of Directors to be elected for each such Region and the final date for the filing of nominating petitions and further stating that a form for nominating petitions is available upon request without charge.  Members shall be entitled to nominate candidates for the position of Regional Director by delivering to the Executive Director on or before October 1st one or more nominating petitions signed collectively by at least fifteen (15) of the members entitled to vote for a director from the Region at the upcoming annual meeting and signed by the nominee named therein to demonstrate acceptance of his nomination. Electronic signatures on nominating petitions and on a nominee’s acceptance shall be deemed acceptable."

Accordingly, the following positions will be included on 2018 election ballot distributed to AMHA members in good standing as of December 31, 2017.

One regional director for each Eastern, Central and Western Regions. At the 2018 Annual Meeting, one director from each of the Regions shall be elected to a three-year term.

For a person's name to be placed on the official ballot, that person must go through a nomination process, which consists of:

• Candidate must be an AMHA member in good standing possessing an individual or life membership;
• Residency within the region for which they are running;
• Filing the nomination petitions, with appropriate number of qualified signatures, with AMHA office by October 1, 2017;
• Obtaining official nomination petitions from AMHA's headquarters and securing a minimum of 15 qualified voting members signatures of the region;
• Valid signatures on nomination petitions are AMHA members in good standing, over the age of 18 with a record address in the Region as of December 31 in the year prior to the deadline of the nomination petition;
• Each candidate must sign each nomination petition to show acceptance of nomination.

EASTERN: Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, South America, Europe, Africa

CENTRAL: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, Central America, all U.S. Territories, and remainder of North American except Canada

WESTERN: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, Canada, New Zealand

AMHA encourages all members to consider getting involved in the governance process of the Association. If you think you might be interested, please obtain a set of nomination/election guidelines from AMHA by contacting AMHA Executive Director at execdir@morganhorse.com or calling (802) 985-4944 ext. 201.

It is important to note that prior attendance at a minimum of two AMHA Board meetings is required in order to qualify as a nominee (one meeting must be in person and one meeting may be a conference call).

The last “live” meeting prior to Oct. 1, 2017 will be the 3rd Quarterly Board Meeting scheduled for August 11-12, 2017 in Burlington, VT.  The host hotel will be the Double Tree by Hilton Burlington located at 1117 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT 05403.  You can reserve your room block under the AMHA room block using this customized link: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/B/BTVDTDT-AMH-20170810/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG.

The election results will be announced at the Annual Meeting of Members in February 2018, which is currently scheduled to be held in Lexington, KY as part of the AMHA Convention.