Sasha Viands asked if this was to determine seniors can graduate using the new graduation requires. 

Azizah Yasin, VP and governance committee chair, explained the process of interviewing and presenting the candidates for full vote of the board without a vote of the committee since a panelist from the interview panel had a question on whether deliberation and vote should happen publicly or in executive session of the governance committee meeting.

Azizah reached out to counsel to confirm the process, and the vote was tabled until confirmation was given. 

Kiara confirmed that the process was legally compliant and that Azizah did not need a vote, but was doing this in good faith as a best practice, but it is fine for Azizah as governance committee chair to present to the full board for a vote.

Azizah presented a profile of the first candidate based on the resume attached.

There was discussion and questions raised about thrfee of the four candidates being lawyers and if there were relationships and/ or were conflicts of interest from board member Sasha V, Neile H, and Kiara B.

Azizah responded discussing recruitment efforts over the past few years, difficulty of people making commitments to volunteer.

Met with the candidates individually, conducted panel interviews with two other panelists, all of whom at the end of the interviews supported them being presented.

There was a suggestion by Sasha V who said she would agree to take one or two candidates.

Latrina said we have been transparent and some candidates attended the board meetings and are aware of the issues in the PVPA community. And although they are lawyers they have other qualities such as passion for arts and finance.

Neile Hede they made a motion to vote on all candidates together as  one slate.

Azizah second the motion.

When Latrina asked for discussion, Azizah went through the profile of the other three candidates. There was a vote on the following in one slate:

• Ann Dargie, Esq.,
• Thomas Roy, Esq.,
• Matthew Schmidt, Esq
• Emily Whitebear