Diocese of Newark The 135th Annual Convention will be held on Friday, January 30 and Saturday, January 31, 2009 Hilton Hotel, Parsippany NJ Nominations Process

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NOMINATION ON-LINE & NOMINATION FORMS follow the Nominations Procedures and the list of Committee members The deadline for nominations to elected offices is November 30, 2008. RULES OF ORDER NOMINATIONS PROCEDURE General requirements for diocesan offices: No person shall be eligible for election to any office at Convention, nor shall any person elected by Districts, or appointed to serve on Diocesan Council or other Diocesan Standing Committees, Commissions or Boards accede to that office, unless that person shall have first completed or arranged for the completion of anti-racism training as approved by the Bishop after consultation with the Mission to Dismantle Racism. (Diocesan Canon 2(6.)) Communicant in good standing: All communicants of this Church who for the previous year have been faithful in corporate worship, unless for good cause prevented, and have been faithful in working, praying, and giving for the spread of the Kingdom of God, are to be considered communicants in good standing. (National Church Canons, I.17.3) D. Nomination of Candidates 1. There will be a notice in the June Voice asking for recommendations to be sent to the Nominations Committee by November 30th. Recommendations may be made in the following ways: (a.) Any person eligible to run may recommend him or herself. (b.) Any person in the Diocese may recommend some one else who is eligible to run. (c.) Members of the Committee are strongly encouraged to present names of possible candidates from their own districts particularly, as well as suggestions from other areas of the Diocese. The Nominations Committee will evaluate recommendations and present a report to the Secretary of Convention and Committee on Rules of Order and Elections by November 30th for distribution with the pre-convention mailing at the end of December. Any nominees not accepted by the Nominations Committee shall be informed in writing by November 30th in order to allow for nomination through other methods. 2. In addition to the slate presented by the Nominations Committee, additional nominations will be received in the following ways: (a.) Any five (5) delegates to Convention may nominate a candidate to any office. Nominations post marked not later than December 15th will be included in the pre-convention mailing and publicized in the Voice along with the nominations received from the Nominations Committee. (b.) Late nominations will continue to be accepted up until noon on the Friday preceding the start of the Annual Convention. E. By the close of the opening session the Nominations Committee shall report to the Convention in the form of an official ballot the names listed by Contest. The arrangement of such names received by January 17th shall be determined by lot in each order. Names received through late nominations shall be added in order of receipt. On the ballot in those contests which require candidates for more than one class, all candidates will be listed as a group by order and length of terms will be determined by ranking of the vote results. F. Only official ballots may be used in elections, except when otherwise ordered by the Convention. The number of vacancies to be filled shall be printed on each ballot. Only valid ballots shall be counted in the whole number of votes cast.

NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE - Convention 2009
District 1
Ms. Barbara Piccirillo (2010) 11 Normand Road, Flanders NJ 07836 H 973-584-3544/973-723-9331 email: sabrinazowner@optonline.net	The Rev. Robert Criste-Troutman (2009) St. Peter's Church 127 Broad Street, Washington NJ 07882 H 908-689-3403 W 908-689-1019 email: revorg4@verizon.net
District 2
Ms. Naomi Horsky (2009) 53 Skyview Drive, Franklin NJ 07416 H 973-827-5085 W 973-720-2673 email: horskyn@wpunj.edu	The Rev. Thomas Laws (2010) St. Gabriels' Church 145 Milton Road Milton NJ 07438 H 973-744-6518 W 973-802-7204 email: thomaslaws@hotmail.com
District 3
Ms. Bonnie Keith (2010) 11 Grantwood Road Parsippany NJ 07054 H 973-887-7725 W email: bonniekeith@verizon.net	The Rev. Fairbairn Powers (2009) Holy Innocents Church 681 Prospect Avenue, West Orange NJ 07052 H 973-731-8611 W 973-731-0259 email: fairbairn.powers@verizon.net
District 4
Ms. Hester Wharton (2009) 15 Chateau Thierry Avenue, Apt 215, Madison NJ 07940 H 973-377-0424 email: hesterbwharton@optonline.net	The Rev. Thomas Murphy (2010) Grace Church 4 Madison Avenue, Madison NJ 07940 H-201-938-0915 W-983-377-0106 email: tmurphy@gracemadison.org
District 5
Ms. Pamela DeLuca (2010) 21 Madison Street Glen Ridge NJ 07028 H 973-259-9701 W email: pjpdeluca@verizon.net	clergy vacancy 2009
District 6
lay vacancy 2009	The Rev. Gregory Perez (2010) Trinity Church 141 Broadway, Bayonne, NJ 07002 H 201-946-0650 W 201-858-4460 x13 email: greg.perez@comcast.net
District 7
Ms. Marie Sanders (2010) 80 Mehrhof Road, Rutherford NJ 07070 H 201-460-1730 email: marie.sanders@ironmountain.com	The Rev. Deborah Drake( 2009) St. Peter's Church 380 Clifton Avenue, Clifton, NJ 07011 H 973-553-1676 W 973-546-5020 email: deborahdrake@optonline.net
District 8
lay vacancy (2009)	The Rev. Dean Weber (2010) All Saints' Church 150 Park Avenue Leonia NJ 07605 H 201-503-1931 W 201-947-1233 email: dweber81@optonline.net
District 9
Ms. Issie Cherevko (2010) 58 Comly Road Lincoln Park NJ 07035 H 862-226-2350 W email: issiecher@yahoo.com	The Rev. Dewey Brown, Jr. ( 2009) St. Luke's Church 43 Massachusetts Avenue, Haworth NJ 07641 H 201-384-0653 W 201-384-0706 email: frdewey@optonline.net
District 10
George F. Mackey, Esq. (2009) 391 Hamilton Road Ridgewood NJ 07450 H 201-445-3777 W 516-794-7500 email:  GFMJD@aol.com	The Rev. John Donnelly (2010) St. Michael's Church 1219 Ratzer Road, Wayne NJ 07470 H-973-696-1980 W-973-694-1026 email: jdonne6441@aol.com
Secretary of Convention
Mr. Michael Francaviglia Episcopal Diocese of Newark 31 Mulberry Street, Newark NJ 07102 H 973-763-4153 W 973-430-9919 email: mfrancaviglia@dioceseofnewark.org ELECTED OFFICES The offices to be elected at diocesan convention are listed at http://www.dioceseofnewark.org/convention/offices.html . A listing of candidates will be posted at http://www.dioceseofnewark.org/convention/candidates.html.

NOMINATION ON LINE - will open later this year

You may submit a nomination on-line by clicking on the line above. Please note that you will receive a Reply Thank You immediately after you hit the "submit" button. If you do not receive the Thank You note, please email mfrancaviglia@dioceseofnewark.org to report that omission.

LATE NOMINATIONS process begins later this year .

Late Nomination Forms were available for use after November 30, 2008. The Late Nomination Form submission was 12 noon on January 23, 2009 in order to be included on the ballot.

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