Attention:  DEMA Members

DEMA is announcing today that Ty Sawyer's seat on the DEMA Board of Directors was vacated effective October 13. Ty's expertise has been beneficial to the DEMA Membership while serving on the Board over the last five years, and his assistance was vital in the recent updating of the Be A Diver website.  Ty's 2010 contributions have included serving on the Nominations Committee and as Chair of the Media Committee.

 

When a DEMA Board seat is vacant, DEMA's Bylaws allow for the remaining Director in the same stakeholder group to assume the seat with the longer of the two terms, provided the Director is eligible to continue service under established seven-year term limits.  DEMA extends congratulations and thanks to Neal Watson, who has agreed to continue his Board service in the A-3 category until the close of the 2012 DEMA Board elections, rather than to conclude his Board service at the end of this year. 

 

Although the DEMA Board of Directors may fill a vacancy by appointing a DEMA Member voting delegate within the appropriate stakeholder category to the vacant Board seat, the DEMA Board has determined that instead, DEMA Members should vote to fill the vacancy in the upcoming election, beginning December 15, 2010.  The final slate of candidates for the Board elections will be announced at the end of November and will include nominated and write-in candidates from the five DEMA stakeholder groups.