{"id":38554,"date":"2023-05-10T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T20:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/?page_id=38554"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T21:32:00","slug":"become-a-board-member","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/about-us\/become-a-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Board of Director positions come up for election in March of each year. Each position has a three-year term. Qualifications for the Board of Directors are described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bylaws-Article-III_-Directors.pdf\">Article III<\/a> of Peninsula Light Company\u2019s Bylaws. Interested candidates must be able to make the required term-of-office commitment and must be willing to devote a considerable amount of time preparing for and attending local, regional and national meetings, events, and training sessions (estimate 25 hours per month).<\/p>\n<p>Peninsula Light Company\u2019s Election Committee will nominate candidates to appear on the ballot from the among:<br \/>\n1. Incumbent Board members who exercise their right to run for reelection<br \/>\n2. Members who submit a completed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-PLC-BOD-Application-for-Director-Candidacy-Declaration-of-Candidacy_fillable.pdf\">Application for Director Candidacy and a signed Declaration of Candidacy<\/a> by the deadline described below<br \/>\n3. Members recruited by the Election Committee to be considered as candidates<\/p>\n<p>Members may also exercise the right to run by filing a valid Petition for Nomination as described in Article III of Peninsula Light Company\u2019s Bylaws. Petition information can be requested by emailing Britni Wickens at <a href=\"mailto:britni@penlight.org\">britni@penlight.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To be considered by the Election Committee, a member must return a completed Application for Director Candidacy and a signed Declaration of Candidacy by December 31. Completed documents may be submitted by either:<br \/>\n1. Email to: Britni Wickens at <a href=\"mailto:britni@penlight.org\">britni@penlight.org<\/a><br \/>\n2. Mail to: \u201cPenLight Election Committee, Attn: PR Manager,\u201d 13315 Goodnough Drive Northwest, Gig Harbor, WA 98332.<\/p>\n<h3>Questions?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:penlight@penlight.org\">Email Peninsula Light Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Board of Director positions come up for election in March of each year. Each position has a three-year term. Qualifications for the Board of Directors are described in Article III of Peninsula Light Company\u2019s Bylaws. Interested candidates must be able to make the required term-of-office commitment and must be willing to devote a considerable [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"parent":38541,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38554"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139388,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38554\/revisions\/139388"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penlight.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}