Important Update

2025 BCTA Spring Election Process

At the time I am writing this, all nominations have been received and candidates were contacted to see if they would stand. This will be our 4th year holding online voting, with good voter turnout last year and very few problems.

Elections will be held online during the week of March 23 to March 29, 2025 closing 8:00 pm PST.

Once the elections committee has established the online elections platform that will be used to hold the election members will be notified via email with further instructions on how to vote. Once again, If you do not have an active email it is encouraged to get one when renewing your 2025 membership. If you are a member who never uses email or does not have access to a computer, or do not receive a email ballot please contact the elections committee, we can arrange a phone call vote for voting or resend your email ballot by emailing elections@bctrappers.ca

Any new memberships after February 15, 2025 will not be eligible to vote in the 2025 elections.

Up for elections this year as follows;

• Region 1,3,5,7A,7B - all for 2 year terms

• Director at Large #2 position – 2 year term

• President – 2 year term

This Year we will be holding 2 elections only, for President we have 2 nominees. For Director at large #2 as we have 6 nominees. The board has decided that the first-place winner will receive the DAL #2 position for a 2 year term and the second place in voting will be appointed to DAL #1 for a one year term. (Mr Ray Ensz sadly decided to step down from his position of Director at Large #1, just after a call for nominations went out. Thank you “Buck” for helping make the BCTA better)

• Region 1 –Darlene Clarke was nominated and returns to the board by acclamation

• Region 3 –Chris Wheeler was nominated and returns to the board by acclamation

• Region 5 – We Welcome Carl Gitscheff into a new region as he returns to the board by acclamation

• Region 7A – Don Wilkens was nominated and appointed to the board by acclamation

• Region 7B – Stanley Troyer was nominated and appointed to the board by acclamation

President - Nominees as follows (alphabetical)

• Brian Dack

• Holly Wise

Director at Large #2 – Nominee as follows (alphabetical)

• Ryan Berard

• Gerd Erasmus

• Steve Hamilton

• Tim James

• Kevin Klein

Elections to proceed;

• President

• Director At Large #2.

All members of the BCTA will vote in this election.

Campaign Statements available HERE

Role duties:

Duties of a Director and Director at Large are as follow from the constitution

67. President

President The President shall:

a. attend all general meetings of the Association and the Board of Directors and preside as Chair at the meetings;

b. subject to the authority of the Board, direct the general management of the Association’s affairs and business, and such other duties as may be assigned by the Board of Directors; and

c. be entitled to attend any meeting of a Committee in order to observe or assign another Executive Committee member to fill that role.

72. Director at Large

Directors at Large shall:

a. in conjunction of entire Board of Directors, be responsible for setting goals and overseeing all business of the Association;

b. assist with communications between the Association, Locals, and Members with particular emphasis on Locals requiring additional support; and

c. perform any additional duties assigned by the Board or the Executive

The first step in the new elections process is the nomination of candidates. As per our by laws:

43. Nominations. Nominations for Board of Director Positions are due by February 15 each calendar year or on another date within a calendar year set by special resolution of the Board of Directors.

Nominations must be provided by at least two Voting Members of the Association in good standing, or a Local.

44. Regional Director Eligibility. Candidates for a Regional Director position must trap in or be resident in the Region they are being nominated to represent and may only be nominated by the Locals of that Region or Voting Members who trap in or are residents of that Region.

Note: The regional director elected may also hold a position as chair of a local. It is not a requirement to be a local elected chair to be elected as the regional director.

Prior to elections members will have to identify which region they wish to cast their vote. Members can only vote for one regional director. Which region a member wishes to vote will be collected at the time of membership purchase. Bylaw states:

50. Voting Rights. Any Voting Member may vote for a Presidential, Vice-Presidential candidate, and two Director at Large Candidates. Voting Members may choose to vote for any Regional Director candidate in the Region they live in or a Region they trap in, but cannot cast more than one such vote during any one election.