Elections for the seven member BESS Board of Directors will be held at 7:30 pm on November 14 at the Holiday Inn on Belmont Avenue.

1. If you are a contributor, you may nominator any other contributor, or you may nominate yourself. Please email nominations to: [email protected].
2. If you nominate someone, I need both a name and contact information (e-mail address or phone number). This information will be used to confirm that the nomination is accepted.
3. Candidates will be requested to provide a brief statement describing their background and their interest in BESS. These statements will be posted to the BESS Announcement list and here on the website, below.
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4. Advance nominations are due by November 7. Nominations will be taken "from the floor" on the day of the election (the nominee must be present).
5. You must be present with your contributor card on November 14 if you wish to vote (no mail-ins or other proxies). You may vote for up to seven of the candidates.
6. Write-ins are allowed.

There will be an orientation at 7:00 pm on November 14, before the election meeting begins at 7:30. You may join and vote that night.

We encourage all contributors to participate.

List of nominees:

• Ivolee: (no bio available)
• Jerry: (no bio available)

• Jonathan:

     Jonathan Krall is a founding member of both BESS and Black Rose, and a co-founder of DCSMA. He is a current BESS Director and a former Black Rose board-member. He has served NCSF as Deputy Executive Director and presently assists with the NCSF Law Enforcement Outreach Program. He is the proud recipient of the Black Rose Elder Award for 1999 and the Pantheon of Leather Mid-Atlantic Regional Award for 2000. He likes to get spanked.

  Candidate Statement:

     Because I do not actually live in Baltimore, or even in Maryland, I feel I should talk about why I am continuing to butt into the affairs of Baltimore.

     First, I will personally benefit from a strengthened SM community in Baltimore: more events, more parties, more opportunities for kinky sex for me. As group leaders, I feel we should try to be honest with ourselves about why we do these things. I also feel that a strengthened SM community in Baltimore, combined with policies of openness and community-support, will result in a strengthened SM community in Washington DC.

    I got into this, in part, because I have a background in SM group organizing. I also got into it because folks in Baltimore were interested in working to make BESS happen. Things have worked out wonderfully so far, but I feel I should keep at it until I feel the job is done.
  Specifically, I would like to see the Team Handbooks become fully realized and to see that versions of these Handbooks are made available for other SM groups.
  I am proud to be a part of BESS and feel that BESS has already become an organization which other SM groups will wish to emulate.

  Disclosures:

    At present, I am serving as Education co-chair for DCSMA (I attend occasional meetings, work on the web page and give occasional talks), lecturer in the NCSF Law Enforcement Outreach Program (occasional talks), Group Liaison for BR2001 (ending in November 2001). I sometimes assist my friend, Mistress Sibyl, with her seminars for Pro Dommes.


• Leroy: (no bio available)
• Lisa: (no bio available)

• Lynne:
  Scene Name: Princess Lynne
      I'm a member of the BESS interim Board of Directors, Vice-Chair of the Board, and Social Team Leader. I redesigned the Dungeon Monitor Training Manual and offered a DM training class to BESS members.

  I'm also a member of Baltimore AT EASE, and have been a member of the Black Rose. I've been involved in the scene for 20 years.

  I joined the BESS Planning Group to contribute to the local scene because the scene has been so important to me. I accepted the nomination to run again for the Board of Directors in order to continue contributing to the development of BESS. I believe we need a place in Baltimore where we can all gather and truly be ourselves.