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General Nominating Meeting for the Mountaineer Park HBPA Board of Directors 2020 Election

August 10, 2020

11 am, The Kitchen

Nominating/Election Committee

Ed Shilling, Bill Witherow & Geoffrey Dixon 

Procedures for Nominating a Candidate

1. The nomination committee may nominate candidates
2. Nominations will be accepted at the nomination meeting with a nomination, a first and second by licensed owners or trainers who are members of the HBPA (a member is someone who has started a horse in the last year)
3. Within 15 days (August 25) of the meeting a petition with more than 30 licensed owners and trainers can be submitted to the committee. Petitions will be available at the meeting. 

Eligibility Requirements of Board of Directors

1. Started one of more horses a minimum of five times per while a member in the past two years immediately preceding the date of nomination.
2. Must have raced at Mountaineer at least fifty percent (50%) of the racing season in the two years preceding the nomination.

Eligibility Requirements of President

1. Started one of more horses a minimum of five times in the three years preceding the nomination.
2. Must have raced at Mountaineer at least fifty percent (50%) of the racing season in the three years preceding the nomination.

Election: Counting of Ballots October 30, 2020.