{"id":12385,"date":"2020-10-05T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2024-08-20T15:35:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:35:23","slug":"community-council-election-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/community-council-election-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTION PROCEDURES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTION PROCEDURES<\/span><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;\">As outlined in the Special Olympics Ontario Bylaws, Community Council positions are elected positions and no term limit can exceed two years.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;\">Most Community Councils choose to hold their bi-annual elections in conjunction with their Annual Member&#8217;s Meeting every other year. Some councils, however, hold rotating elections where every year half of the council positions are up for election each year. This is done to avoid having all new volunteers on council at one time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;\">However a council chooses to hold an election, there are some basic principles which must be met:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Elections must be held at a minimum of every 2 years<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The <span data-teams=\"true\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Program Consultant<\/span><\/span> must be invited to the election and a Provincial Staff Member should be present to act as adjudicator for the election<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">An election notice, outlining what positions will be up for nomination along with the logistical information regarding the election, must be sent out to the general membership at least 6 weeks prior to the date of the election (communities may choose to advertise in the local paper as well)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The election is open to all current members of the organization and an invitation to the election should be sent out to the membership along with the election notice<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Once the Community Council has determined their timeline regarding regularly held elections this information should be adopted into the Community Policies and made available to all stakeholders<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;\">Once an election date has been set and the above principles have been met it is the responsibility of the Community Council to fulfill the following obligations:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Receive all Declarations of Interest from interested parties and ensure they have the correct information regarding the election<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Answer any questions that potential volunteers have regarding the council positions<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Have ballots made up for the election<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu; font-size: 12pt;\">For information on eligibility for nomination <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/community-council-election-procedures\/\">click here<\/a><\/strong> and for the declaration of intrest form <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/community-council-declaration-of-interest\/\">click here.<\/a>\u00a0For more information regarding community council elections please contact your <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Ubuntu;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span data-teams=\"true\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Program Consultant.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 COMMUNITY COUNCIL ELECTION PROCEDURES As outlined in the Special Olympics Ontario Bylaws, Community Council positions are elected positions and no term limit can exceed two years. Most Community Councils choose to hold their bi-annual elections in conjunction with their Annual Member&#8217;s Meeting every other year. Some councils, however, hold rotating elections where every year half of the council positions &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/community-council-election-procedures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,282],"tags":[276,278,277,274,273,272,275,271,161,280,281,279],"class_list":["post-12385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities-and-clubs","category-councils-and-committees","tag-community-athlete-representative","tag-community-coordinator","tag-community-fundraiser","tag-community-registrar","tag-community-secretary","tag-community-transition-coordinator","tag-community-treasurer","tag-community-volunteer","tag-councils-and-committees","tag-health-and-wellness-coordinator","tag-public-relations-coordinator","tag-sport-technical-coordinator","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}