Board/2026/Election

Process

The 2025 Board appoints a nominating committee, which will collect nominations & confirm willingness to stand for election & serve, with each nominee.

A membership committee board is also materializing membership status from meeting & donation records.

The steps we need to complete:

• Announce (30+ days in advance)
• Nominations (nominate someone https://forms.gle/X5SZKSMHbvHYZ3sD6)
  • Acceptance of nominations (don't skip this step)
• Election

Goals

• Elect a new board, as we aim to do annual, in accordance with our bylaws -- filed with the state and maintained.

General Precedent

• Announce (30+ days in advance)
• Nominations
  • Acceptance of nominations (don't skip this step, people don't like to find out they were elected without accepting)
• Election
  • Core members are the legal members of the non-profit. Recently & habitually board is elected from nominees with at least one affirmative vote and no blocks. In recent years, one or a few core members have offered to proxy vote *support or most notably) block, on behalf of associate members.

Caveats & Lessons

We need people willing to share their real name--for the purposes of filing taxes, and signing agreements.

Leverage & Success of the Board

Board can do well by delegating & extending authority to the community through working groups & committees, e.g. the 2025 woodshop construction & city permitting working group.

Board Requirements

As the board is Noisebridge's legal interface to the outside world we require that board members:

• accept their nomination
• disclose their legal name to be reported to the state of California as well as other documents (e.g. taxes)
• provide a form of contact to be disclosed to other members of the board