August 29-Announce vacancies, publish petitions and questions in minutes. Sept. 5-Noon deadline for submission of petitions and questions. Sept. 5-Announce candidates and publish answers to questions in minutes. But we do need to have 15 members on Senate. Let people make a choice as to the position.
Some people like to plan their lives.
His e-mail does say that he will resign completely if the Senate wants him to do that. We don't want to get into the business of appointing people. The easier thing is to say that the person who gets the most votes gets to choose their term. One of the concerns is if there will be enough people who are wiling to run for the positions. We can get four or five people to run, but we probably can't get fifteen people to run for these positions.