ACT-CO Searching for New Board Members

ACT-CO Groups,

Your Group is a member of ACT-CO and benefits from the services ACT-CO provides. These services are only possible through the efforts of the ACT-CO Board. The ACT-CO Board of Directors is a made up of volunteers from Groups such as yours. Some people serve on the Board for many years and finally decide that they’ve done enough. Other people serve for only a few years and, for various reasons, find that they can’t continue. The upshot is that, every year, ACT-CO is in need of volunteers to run for election to the Board.

If your Group has sent members to the ACT-CO Board in the last few years (or perhaps over many years) then you have done your “duty” and can ignore this request with a clear conscience (but don’t discourage willing persons from volunteering anyway). If your Group has NEVER, or hasn’t for a long time, nominated members to the ACT-CO Board, I URGE (beg?) you to survey your members and encourage them to consider the ACT-CO Board. Please contact all of your members as soon as possible to inform them of this OPPORTUNITY to contribute to the Theatre community. While being on the Board isn’t FUN, FUN, FUN all the time, sometimes it is. And you get to know so much about Theatre and Theatre Groups it’s almost illegal.

New members to the Board usually join as Director-Without-Portfolio and, over time, discover what role they best suit on the Board. The portfolio most sought after (there is usually a fistfight over who is going to get it! J) is SECRETARY, so I recommend that you advise interested candidates to get they’re nominations in ASAP.

Nominations should come to us by June 1st but it is also possible to nominate candidates from the floor at the ACT-CO Annual General Meeting on June 6th. Click here for a Nomination Form.

You are the only way ACT-CO has of communicating directly with our Groups (we do not have a general mailing list of all your members) so please help us get this important request out to your members as soon as possible.

Email nominations to either:

John Wyman: actcomembership@actco.ca

Vicki Drier: actco_vdrier@actco.ca

Thank you in advance,

John Wyman
Vicki Drier
2011/2012 Nomination Committee