AMTA NC Chapter Blog

I had the good fortune to serve as one of the North Carolina Delegates present at the 2009 House of Delegates (HOD) at the AMTA National Convention.  The HOD is a wonderful exercise in democracy providing a format for individual and chapter input in our member driven organization.  Each chapter is represented in the HOD.  The number of delegates for each chapter is determined by the number of members in the chapter.  North Carolina is considered an extra large chapter and therefore has five delegate slots.  Beyond that each delegate’s vote is weighted so that they accurately represent the members of their chapter.  For example, NC has about 1600 members represented by 5 delegates.  So my vote counted for about 320 of our members.

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