ANC 2A will hold a special meeting on Thursday, November 2nd from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The purpose of the meeting is to conduct a test vote of a ranked choice voting system that the ANC will use to appoint the ANC’s two designated representatives to the Community Advisory Team (CAT) for The Aston. The agenda for the meeting can be found here. Please note that this will only be a test vote and no candidate names will be used while conducting the test vote.
The ANC will be offering the ability to attend this meeting in-person. The in-person meeting will take place in the conference room of the West End Library at 2301 L Street NW. Additionally, the meeting will also be held online via Zoom and can be accessed at the following link: https://bit.ly/ANC2AFirstSpecialNovember2023. If you do not have a computer or access to the internet, you may join the meeting via phone at (301) 715-8592 or (646) 558-8656 with meeting ID 856 0916 2487 #.
ANC 2A will then hold a special meeting on Monday, November 6th from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm to conduct the ranked choice vote to appoint the ANC’s two designated representatives to the Community Advisory Team (CAT) for The Aston. The agenda for the meeting can be found here.
The ANC will be offering the ability to attend this meeting in-person. The in-person meeting will take place in the first floor conference center of 2445 M Street NW. Additionally, the meeting will also be held online via Zoom and can be accessed at the following link: https://bit.ly/ANC2ASecondSpecialNovember2023. If you do not have a computer or access to the internet, you may join the meeting via phone at (301) 715-8592 or (646) 558-8656 with meeting ID 872 6374 1770 #.
As previously announced, during this second special meeting applicants will be given the opportunity (but will not be required) to give statements of up to two minutes in length. Commissioners will be allocated a set amount of time to make comments and/or address questions to the nominees. According to the ANC’s bylaws, the two winning candidates must still garner a majority of votes in order to be confirmed. This means there is a possibility the vote could result in only one or no winners.
The candidates for the ranked choice vote are as follows:
- Erin Cahill
- Courtney Cooperman
- Ellen Harrison
- Dan Hawkins
- Irina Jimenez
- Chris Labas
- Shane Menzel
- Jessica Rich
- Scott Schenkelberg
- Sarah Shapiro
- Maria Velleca
- May Yang
If you have any questions regarding these special meetings, please reach out to Peter Sacco, ANC 2A’s Executive Director, at 2A@anc.dc.gov.