{"id":1141,"date":"2011-03-26T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T18:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookcountypd.org\/blog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2011-03-26T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T22:26:48","slug":"notice-of-local-elections-sent-to-members-via-u-s-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/03\/26\/notice-of-local-elections-sent-to-members-via-u-s-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Local Elections Sent to Members via U.S. Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Christa Petty (FSD), Election Chair of Local 3315 has mailed a notice of the upcoming election to all local members at the addresses on file with Council 31. \u00a0Here is an excerpt from the notice:<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><em>Everyone who is a full member in good standing for one year before the election is eligible to run for office and all of the offices are up for election. \u00a0The term of each office is two years beginning at the Board meeting scheduled for July. \u00a0The job responsibilities for each office are listed in the Union constitution, which is available on the Stewards and Grievances link on the website, cookcountypd.org. \u00a0The positions are as follows:<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em> President<br \/>\nVice President<br \/>\nTreasurer<br \/>\nSecretary<br \/>\n3 Executives at Large<br \/>\n1 Trustee<br \/>\nThe <strong>nomination meeting will be held in the 7th floor library of the Public Defender\u2019s Office at 26th and California at \u00a04:00 pm on April 14, 2011.<\/strong> Anyone may nominate and the nominee does not have to be in attendance. \u00a0The election chair will contact the nominee to determine whether he or she wishes to run for the office. \u00a0The<strong> general election will be held on May 5, 2011 from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm at each worksite<\/strong> where it is feasible to hold the election. \u00a0If any race results in no nominee receiving at least 50% of the vote,<strong> a runoff election between the nominees with the two highest vote totals will be held on May 19, 2011, from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm at those same worksites<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nNo one will be permitted to vote by proxy. \u00a0Each member must be present in person to vote.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nIf you have any questions, please contact Christa Petty, the election chair, at (312)603-8326.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sister Christa Petty (FSD), Election Chair of Local 3315 has mailed a notice of the upcoming election to all local members at the addresses on file with Council 31. \u00a0Here is an excerpt from the notice: Everyone who is a full member in good standing for one year before the election is eligible to run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/local3315.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}