Elections Results 2024: Deferred Seats

Following our 2024 election, the Board of Directors made two temporary appointments. Our 2024 election required quorum of 526 participants. A total of 295 participants voted or abstained.

Our 2024 election ended with appointments until next year’s election.

Normally we would start a process we call “quorum hunt” to remind non-voting members to vote until a quorum was obtained.

As discussed in our Letter from the Executive Director for October 2024, we have had two full-time team members dealing with long-term illness the second half of this year. Board of Directors members have been standing by to help. They anticipated the board expending significant volunteer effort to keep the association moving forward. The nominees for the Board of Directors were briefed on this, and quite understandably declined to accept nomination given the demands on their own time. Director Alec Bewsee kindly agreed to run unopposed. We felt it awkward to ask members to vote in an unopposed election. There was no other business to attend to.

Under our bylaws, the failure to reach quorum left us unable to elect any director to the five-year term. Each vacancy was therefore appointed for one year, until the next election with quorum. At a meeting of the Board of Directors on Oct. 30, MassLandlords president Michele Kasabula appointed herself with the Board’s unanimous agreement. Additionally, she appointed Alec Bewsee to another year of the seat vacated by director Patrick Sullivan, also with unanimous agreement. This provides board continuity through the next election and hopefully to a time when the team is operating at 100%.

The 2025 election will have three seats available: a new five-year term, the remaining four years of the term that ought to have been started with this election, and the final year of the vacated seat.

Interested in running? Email us at hello@masslandlords.net to ask about forming a local municipal committee to attend town or city meetings.