Our Articles of Incorporation established ORRC as a nonprofit registered in Oregon State, run by a Board of Directors elected by our Members. We rely on members to help us operate the club — so if you are a member, please vote in our elections. Enough members — a quorum — must participate in voting for the election to be valid.
Board members have 2-year commitments. ORRC encourages and welcomes a diversity of ages, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, etc. on the board.
How ORRC Elections Work
Elections are conducted online. Nominations for elected positions are accepted up to a deadline announced in advance of the election date, usually about 14 days before elections open. Nominations are only valid if the nominee is a current member in good standing consenting to the nomination.
Members receive an email with a link to the ORRC ballot and can respond during the election period, typically five days.
Any current ORRC member can vote. Family memberships can vote twice.
Candidates are elected to the board, and then the newly elected board members appoint the officers of the club for the following year (President, Treasurer, VP of Race Operations, and Secretary). Board members serve 2-year terms, but terms across the board are staggered with the intention of preventing too much turnover any given year.
ORRC encourages and welcomes a diversity of ages, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, etc. on the board. Board candidates must be current ORRC members. If you are nominating someone else you must also be a current ORRC member.
To be elected the following must take place:
- A quorum of at least 50 members must vote (or 10% of eligible voting members, whichever is less), and
- A candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast
2025 Election Results
The 2025 Election took place December 1-5, 2025. Any ORRC member current as of Dec 1, 2025 was allowed to vote; family memberships were permitted two votes. 50 votes were required for a quorum; 90 ballots were received by the time online voting closed at 11:59 P.M. on December 5, 2025.
In the December 2025 election, we had nine candidates. Eight of them were incumbent board members, including all four of the current board officers on the board (President, Treasurer, VP of Race Operations, and Secretary).
Everybody on the ballot was elected, so the ORRC board now has 12 members.
Congratulations to all who ran, and a special welcome to Joe Casanova who will be joining the board in January.
