Election of the 2025 Board of Directors

Dear Berkeley Yacht Club members,

As the year goes into the fall season, it is time to prepare the club for the next year. On behalf of the Nominating Committee, please find below the nominations for the 2025 BYC Board of Directors:

Five current board members agreed to continue serving on the board. Thank you Graeme Lowe, Roger Mason, JP Camille, Judy Lee, and Phil Straus!

Leaving the board at the end of this year will be Mary Garfein transitioning to Staff Commodore, Evan McDonald (Treasurer), Robin Crawford (Secretary), Ibrahim Sargin (Port Captain), and Directors Kimber Oswald and Amanda Witherell.  We would like to thank you for your energy, time, and commitment to support the club.

For 2025, we welcome six new candidates for the board  

• Mari Bird (for Rear Commodore) is known to many as the heart, soul and organizer for many BYC events and race committees throughout the years next to making a mean Paella.

• Suliana Baldwin (for Treasurer) is our former bookkeeper and club manager. Now as a member she is best positioned to oversee the intricacies of our finances.  

• Leslie Brogan (for Secretary) is a former marketing professional turned wooden boat craftswoman,  and an avid racer in our beer cans and several SF-Bay one-design fleets.  

• Scott Barnes (for Port Captain) is active in the Blue Water Foundation, has been working around the club repairing the dock, storage shed and other areas in need of TLC and joined Roger Mason to reinvigorate the Ship's Store.

• Max Perez (for Director) is the BYC delegate to PICYA, supports the BYC website and is active on the cruising committee. 

• Galen Loving (for Director) recently took a year-long sabbatical to go sailing, he is active in the Pacific Club Yacht club and steers the environmental program for PacCup.

   

Thank you to all candidates volunteering to steer our ship! 

The Nominating Committee believes that we have a strong slate of candidates for the 2025 Board and that the club will be in good hands. Please support these candidates during the election!

Voting Process:  

All candidates will be introduced to the membership at the cooperation meeting on October 19th. Until then club members can nominate additional candidates for the board. Per our by-laws, voting will be electronically. Ballots will be sent to voting members by November 1st. The voting closes at 5 pm on November 16th before the November Election meeting.

Respectfully submitted by the Nominating Committee,

Betty Gray, Mark Bird, Hawkeye King, Suliana Baldwin, Falk Meissner

October 06, 2024.