Petition Process for Additional Board Candidates Closes Monday

Petitions to have the names of additional candidates added to the ballot for the American Booksellers Association’s 2014–15 Board of Directors elections must be received by next Monday, March 3. Upon receipt of a valid petition, the bookseller’s name will be added to the director ballot alongside the three candidates approved by the Board at the end of January:

• John Evans of DIESEL, A Bookstore, with locations in Brentwood, Larkspur, Malibu, and Oakland, California.
   
• Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
   
• Matthew Norcross of McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, Michigan

Under ABA’s Bylaws, any bookstore member may submit a petition for a director candidate. Should bookstore members wish to submit a petition, the following requirements must be met:

• A candidate must be an employee or owner of an ABA member bookstore. The member bookstore must be in good standing, and the individual candidate must have at least three years’ experience in a bookstore-member company

• Each petition can present only one candidate.

• All petitions must be submitted by March 3, 2014, to the Chair, ABA Nominating Committee, c/o ABA, 333 Westchester Avenue, Suite S202, White Plains, New York 10604.

• The names on the petition in support of the candidate must reflect at least two percent of ABA Bookstore Members as of January 1, 2014; that is a minimum of 25 signatures. The petition must contain original signatures and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of bookstore members in at least five states, with representatives of no one state constituting more than 50 percent of the total number of petition signatures.

Ballots will be sent to ABA members via e-mail at the end of March, 60 days prior to the May 29 Annual Membership Meeting at the Javits Convention Center during BookExpo America.