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CALL FOR CANDIDATES FOR DOCENT COUNCIL AND DOCENT-AT-LARGE
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Calling all docents who are interested in serving CAC beyond giving tours! This November, the docent body will elect its representatives to the Docent Council (DC). We may not be Uncle Sam but the Nominating Committee is seeking qualified, interested and eager docents who would like to serve. In other words, “We want you!!!”

The DC consists of 12 docent representatives, a docent-at-large, and docent candidate reps from training classes. The council’s purpose is to convey the interests of the docents to the CAF Board of Trustees and staff, and to provide governance for the docent body. The docent-at large represents CAC docents as a voting, ex-officio member of the CAF Board of Trustees and is a voting member of DC.

This year, six slots are open with four current docent council members running, if they so choose. Each docent rep serves for two years; the docent-at-large serves for one year. Docent Council representatives cannot serve for more than 3 consecutive terms.

An active docent is eligible for re-election after two years of non-membership on the Docent Council. The term of office begins at the January 2023 DC meeting. While the full scope of a DC rep is in the Articles of Operation, available on The Bridge, here is a summary for those docents interested in nomination:

1. 1. Currently the DC meets on the first Tuesday of the month from 6-7:30 p.m. at the CAC*. You are expected to attend these monthly meetings.
   2. Regular members of DC are expected to join one standing committee, with one monthly meeting. The choice is theirs to make, with the idea that they will help the committee and provide feedback to the Council. If a nominee or newly elected docent already serves on a standing committee, he/she may remain on that committee.
   3. The time commitment for a DC member who is serving on DC and one committee should average between 6 to 8 hours per month.
   4. Docent-at-large representatives would add an additional quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees and an unknown, but usually small, number of Board committee meetings.

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* Covid-19 has added some challenges this year with meetings which were held remotely. Guidelines and meeting times for 2023 are yet to be published but, for reference here is policy in place for 2022.

1. 1. A minimum of four (4) meetings per year will be conducted in person at CAC or an otherwise approved location. The remaining 8 (or fewer) meetings will employ remote communications software, such as Zoom.
   2. The schedule for 2023 meetings — date, time, and format — will be published by February 1, 2023.
   3. Scheduled in-person meetings will be immediately canceled and rescheduled using remote technology if CDC/CAC guidelines are adjusted to prohibit in-person gatherings with a specific cap of attendees.

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If you would like to run for Docent Council and/or if you have questions about running, please contact Lisa Pickell, Chair of the Election Nominating Committee, at lp****@ya***.com,

The deadline for submitting nominations is Aug. 24.

2023 Election Nominating Committee,
Lisa Pickell, Chair; Erica Myles, Alice Daniele, Ingrid Nelson and Cynthia Karabush