Board and Administration - KidsAbility

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Section:
Governance –
Recruitment,
Appointment,
Evaluation
Subject:
Succession Planning, Recruitment
and Appointments
1 - 30
Page: 2 of 3
Approved: May 25, 2009
Supersedes:
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• In each instance, recommendations for appointment and/or re-appointment must be
forwarded to the Governance Committee early in the spring so final recommendations may
be placed before the Board of Directors for its decision at the Board meeting following
immediately upon the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting.
• Terms of office for members of standing and ad hoc committees will be specified in the
Terms of Reference for each committee.
• If a member of the Executive or a Director of the Board cannot complete a term of
appointment, the resulting vacancy shall be filled with all practical expediency (normally
within ninety days) and in keeping with normal processes as closely as possible.
• If the Chair of a committee cannot complete a full term, the Board shall appoint a
replacement on the recommendation of the Governance Committee.
• When a newly-appointed Director takes office, the Chair of the Board will arrange for a
sitting member of the Board to serve as a mentor to that individual to provide transitional
support in understanding the role of the Director and the issues with which that individual
may be required to contend.
Procedures:
• The Chair of the Board of Directors, the Vice-Chair of the Board, the Past Chair of the
Board, and the Executive Director of the Foundation will serve as the Nominating Committee
charged with the search for the incoming Vice Chair of the Board.
• The recommendation of this Committee will normally be presented to the Governance
Committee in sufficient time for the Governance Committee to make its recommendation to
the Board of Directors for it to come to its decision at the Board meeting following
immediately upon the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting coincident with the new
Chair’s assuming the responsibilities associated with that position.
• The Vice Chair will be recruited and appointed with the understanding that that position will
normally, though not necessarily, serve as transitional to the position of Chair of the Board.
• Candidates for the position of Vice Chair must normally have served as a Director for a least
two full years when the candidate will be scheduled to assume that position and ought,
ideally, to have served as chair of a Foundation standing or ad hoc committee.
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