With the bylaw changes passed by the membership last year, nomination of candidates for board seats is now the responsibility of a seven-member nominating committee appointed by the AVEC Board of Directors. The committee was appointed in October 2015, and met numerous times via teleconference to complete its assignment.<\/p>\n
Members of the nominating committee must be village delegates. Serving this year are:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Ben Atoruk, Kiana
\n\u2022 Peter Atchak, Bethel
\n\u2022 Walter Bachman Jr., Minto
\n\u2022 Clarence Dull, Toksook Bay
\n\u2022 Herbert Lockuk Jr., Togiak
\n\u2022 Albert Ningeulook, Shishmaref
\n\u2022 Darrel Vent Sr., Huslia<\/p>\n
The nominating committee, under the chairmanship of Albert Ningeulook, submitted the following candidates for your consideration:<\/p>\n
Gene Peltola, Bethel<\/strong>. With 30 years\u2019 experience managing nonprofit organizations and 12 years of for-profit experience, Peltola is well known in the statewide business community as well as in the legislative arena, Peltola is executive director of the Orutsararmuit Native Council of Bethel.<\/p>\n Fred Sagoonick, Shaktoolik<\/strong>. Sagoonick is the general manager of Shaktoolik Native Corp. and serves on the board of directors of AVEC (since 2007) and Bering Straits Native Corp. He has also served on the\u00a0 Shaktoolik City Council and as mayor for two terms.<\/p>\n Walter Sampson, Noorvik<\/strong>. Sampson recently retired as vice president of Land and Regional Affairs at NANA, after 42 years of service. He is a decorated Vietnam veteran and has served in numerous volunteer positions, including president of the Northwest Arctic Borough Assembly, chairman of Kobuk Valley Resource Commission and commander of the Kotzebue Civil Air Patrol. He has served on AVEC\u2019s Board of Directors since 1989.<\/p>\n You will receive ballots in the mail in late February so you can cast your selections to fill the two positions being vacated by Sagoonick and Sampson. We will send you more complete information about the candidates with that ballot. We hope you will all vote in this first, momentous member election of directors.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the bylaw changes passed by the membership last year, nomination of candidates for board seats is now the responsibility of a seven-member nominating committee appointed by the AVEC Board of Directors. The committee was appointed in October 2015, and met numerous times via teleconference to complete its assignment. Members of the nominating committee must […]\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-04-28 02:58:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avec.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}