Members can 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.. Members interested in declaring their candidacy are encouraged to post a candidate statement here at madisonhours.org.
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.
Hi,I'm Art Paul Schlosser
I am honest
and I really believe in Madison Hours.
I think Madison Hours is a great way for Musicians,Artist, Craft Makers,and anyone else who has something to offer to get it to the community.
Especially those who are having trouble selling their stuff.
I think we need to have more holiday sales and we need to encourage the use of Madison Hours in our community.
So if I'm elected I will try my best to Promote Madison Hours everywhere.
I wanted to express my sincere interest and enthusiasn in regards to participating as a board member with Madison Hours. The work that Madison Hours does is in alignment with my own values and iterests in helping create a local, transparent economic system grounded in social and ecological sustainability. I am a systems thinker, an initiator, educator, and social change agent--brining diverse skills in the ecology and economy of place. I bring well rounded skills in volunteer and event coordination and community outreach and education. Working within non-profit organizations for the past 8 years, I also have a solid sense of how Boards work and are structured both as a staff and as a board/committee member with a variety of conservation education and social justice organizations.
I have served on the Board of Madison Hours Cooperative since its founding in 1996. I currently serve as President and Treasurer. My interest in community currency stems from a desire to see a locally created and controlled money system serve as the backbone of a local economic safety net. I'm concerned that capitalism always leads to winners and losers and am proud to have worked actively on a system that creates only winners. There is no need in a society as wealthy as ours for anyone to go without. For the past many years I've been focused on building an infrastructure for the organization that is “scalable” so we can grow rapidly if needed. I've also been focused on using our website to allow members to update their listings as needed and as a repository of organizational history. If re-elected, I intend to continue to work on these issues and to strengthen our relationship with the Dane County Timebank.
Local currency has never been as needed as it is today. With the value of the dollar in ongoing decline against other currencies; with fuel prices soaring and the U.S. economy languishing; with the crippling indebtedness of the citizenry finally making headlines; with the relocalization of trade- and consumption-patterns becoming priority items in the face of human-induced climate disruption – all of these factors point toward a more popularly receptive atmosphere for alternative, local systems of payment and trade like Madison Hours.
I look forward to another term on the board in order to further proselytize local currency, to help engineer its spread within the business community, to insure that it remains true to its grassroots base, and to continue to assist other communities in starting and maintaining systems of their own.
