Offices to be Filled by
Election (link to pictures & bios. of nominees when
available)
General
Information
The Nominating Committee for
the 2006 Council of the Diocese of West Texas, appointed by
the Bishop, is as follows:
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The Rev.
Jay George |
Chair (Previous
Year) |
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Ada
Sutherland |
Co-Chair
(Previous Year) |
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The Rev. John
Badders |
Valley Convocation |
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The Rev. Howard
Hartzog |
Eastern
Convocation |
|
Mrs. Betsy
Markland |
Northeastern
Convocation |
|
Mrs. Liz Miller
|
Western Convocation |
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Mr. John Otto
|
Southern Convocation |
|
Mrs. Martha
Steves |
Central
Convocation |
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The Rev. Stockton
Williams
|
Northern
Convocation |
In preparation for the
102nd Annual Diocesan Council, to be held at Municipal
Auditorium, San Antonio on February 23-25, 2006, the diocesan Nominating
Committee has developed the roster of nominees.
These web pages (see links above) contain the offices to
be filed with job descriptions along with the Episcopal
Church Canons and Diocesan canons that apply. A full
copy of the Constitutions and Canons of the Episcopal
Diocese of West Texas is available at the Bishop Jones
Center or on the diocesan website:
www.episcopal-dwtx.org.
CANON 1, Section 11
- The Nominating Committee shall review all names
of recommended nominees in selecting its slate of
nominees to be submitted to the Council.
To recommend a communicant to the committee, complete a
"Biographical Data" form and return it along with a digital
photograph (.jpg format) to
helen.schnelzer@dwtx.org
or mail to PO Box 6885, San Antonio, TX 78209.
The chair of the Nominating Committee, The Rev. Jay George
may be contacted through St. Andrew's, Seguin, (830)
372-4330 or e-mail to
revjaygeorge@standrewseguin.org.
Deadline to submit nominations is October 15, 2005.
All persons recommended must be 18 years of age or older
and communicants within the convocation from which they
are being nominated.
(a) A Diocesan
Nominating Committee and the Chair thereof shall be
elected annually by the Diocesan Executive Board at its
regular spring meeting, on nomination by the Bishop.
(b) The
membership of the Nominating Committee shall consist of
one representative of each convocation and two members
of the previous year's Nominating Committee. In the odd
numbered years Northern, Eastern and Valley Convocations
shall be represented by Lay members, while the Central,
Northeastern, Southern and Western Convocations shall be
represented by clergy. In even numbered years the
distribution of membership between clergy and laity as
to convocations shall be the reverse.
(c) The
Secretary of the Executive Board shall, immediately
after the board's action, apprise the committee members
of their election, giving the name and address of each
committee member, and designating the elected chair. A
copy of this Section 11 of Canon1, in toto, shall be
included in each such letter of notification, together
with a list of the offices to be filled by election at
the forthcoming Council, and an analysis of the work
involved in each such office.
(d) It shall
be the duty of the nominating committee chair before
October 1 of the current year to write to the minister
and vestry or Bishop's Committee of each congregation in
the Diocese, apprising them of the offices to be filled
by election at the Council, with an analysis of the work
involved in each such office, and apprising them of
their privilege to recommend, for consideration by the
Diocesan Nominating Committee, the names of men and
women communicants, eighteen years of age or over,
within such convocation whom they consider qualified to
serve in these offices.
(e) It shall
be the duty of the nominating committee chair to
determine the place and time for a meeting of the
committee, to be held prior to November 15, and to
notify the committee members thereof. At the meeting of
the Nominating Committee, so assembled, the chair shall
report all such proper nominee recommendations, as
he/she shall have received. The names of such
recommended nominees shall be included among those under
consideration by the committee, in selecting its slate
of nominees to be submitted to the Council. The
Committee shall in no event nominate more than three
persons for any one position to be filled, except that
the Committee shall nominate only one person for any one
of the Officers of the Diocese. The Committee shall be
free to initiate the nomination of any person without
prior recommendation.
(f) The report
of the Diocesan Nominating Committee shall include a
brief identification of each person nominated and shall
be submitted to the Bishop in time for inclusion in the
packet of reports to the Council printed prior to the
convening of the Council.
(g) The report
of the Nominating Committee shall not preclude
nominations from the floor at Council.
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