Will the ECC By-Law Amendment Regarding SBNC Nominations Take Away My Civic Associations Right to Nominate and Elect SBNC Members?
Absolutely not! ECC’s By Law amendment is a last resort option that was designed and drafted to come into play only in an instance where it is clearly demonstrated that the civic association for a geographic area is inactive or otherwise failed to designate SBNC nominees. The SBNC process originally provided for each neighborhood association to designate SBNC members (with 2 further members to be designated directly by ECC, plus a high school representative). While the process was intended to give broad and diverse representation on the SBNC, this process inadvertently resulted in a neighborhood having no representation if its local civic association was inactive or otherwise failed to nominate SBNC members. The amendment is designed to “enfranchise” people disenfranchised by this gap in the SBNC member selection process, by allowing the ECC to receive and act on at-large nominations from a neighborhood when (and only when) the area’s association did not designate any SBNC representati
