At our special meeting on August 5 the following members were elected to the Madison Hours Board of Directors:

Art Paul Schlosser
Erin Schneider
Jon Hain
Rob McClure

Board Election Coming Up.

We have 4 self-nominations for the upcoming election thus far. View their candidate statements here.

Members can also self-nominate at the Special Meeting to Elect Directors which will be held at 7:30 on Tuesday, August 5 at the Social Justice Center Conference Room, 1202 Williamson St.

You must be a current member to be a board member or to vote. Anyone can join or renew their membership at the beginning of the Special Meeting.

All 5 seats are open. The top 3 vote getters will get 2 year terms and the others 1 year terms. This will put us back on the rotation called for in our by-laws. If we don't have a 5th candidate, the Board may elect to appoint a member to the 5th seat.

Agenda for Special Meeting:

- Call for Candidate Self-Nominations
- Candidates will each give a short introduction
- Members can ask questions of candidates
- Vote

The policy was changed at the August 25, 2008 Board Meeting. The older policy is listed below.

For any pancake breakfast that results in payment of less than $120, we will also pay the co-hosting organization Madison Hours sufficient to bring their total compensation to $120.

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Old policy:
In addition to the regular distribution of proceeds collected at our pancake breakfast fundraisers, we will also pay the co-hosting organization one Madison Hour for each volunteer hour performed with a maximum of 12 being paid for any one breakfast.

This policy was approved by the Board July 1, 2008 with the condition that it apply retroactively to June 8, 2008.

We received this in our Madison Hours email and wanted to share the concept. This is a new system that uses potential energy as a non-inflationary store of value.

You may be interested to learn about Kilowatt Cards - gift cards that pay for 10 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity in any residential utility account, anywhere in the world. They demonstrate fixed-value paper. Electric utilities don't accept them - we do, thorough www.kilowattcards.com - and then send payments directly to the power companies, at the rate they normally charge their residential customers for that exact amount of electricity (including taxes and fees).

We plan to resume our monthly potlucks in 2008 and will post them on our calendar as we confirm locations.

We will be contacting all current members soon with information on how to activate their account here.