AGENDA FOR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
HELD REMOTELY ON September 6th, 2025 - 12:15PM to 3:30PM
Meeting Guidelines and Protocols
- Standing Items (10 mins)
- Call to Order and Welcome
- Acknowledgement of Unceded Raymatush Ohlone Land
- Introductions
- Reading of the Mission Statement
- Assign Meeting Roles: timekeeper, stack monitor, vice watch
- Welcome from the Board President (5 mins)
- Review of FY 2025 from Executive Director (10 mins)
- Board of Directors FY 2025-2028 Candidate Statements, Q&A
- Explanation of Voting Process
- Election Officials
- Member Choice on Length of Candidate Statements and Q&A Times
- Candidate Statements and Q&A
- Member Meeting Calendar Dates (5 mins)
- Theme Suggestions (10 mins)
- Public Comment (10 mins)
- In Memoriam
- Adjournment
Candidate Statements and Q&A Options
For all options, candidates will be selected to give their statements in random order.
Option A
- Candidates are each provided 4 (four) minutes to speak.
- Immediately following the conclusion of each candidate’s statement, Members will be allowed 7 (seven) minutes for questions directed at that candidate. Each candidate will be able to answer as many questions as possible during the allotted time, per the process described below.
- Members will be required to use the “raise hand” function of the meeting room.
- Questions should be clear, succinct and take approximately 30 (thirty) seconds to ask.
- Candidates will answer, and when their answer is complete, they may prompt for the next question from a member.
Option B
- Candidates are each provided 4 (four) minutes to speak.
- Following the conclusion of the last candidate’s statement, members will be allowed 45 (forty-five) minutes for questions directed at any single candidate.
- Members will be required to use the “raise hand” function of the meeting room in order to ask the candidate a single question.
- Questions should be clear, succinct and take approximately 30 (thirty) seconds to ask.
- Candidates will have up to 2 (two) minutes to answer each question.
- Members interested in asking more than one question will be asked to move to the end of the “stack” for their next question.
- Questions will be asked in a “first come-‐first served” basis.
- Members must direct their question to a single candidate.
At their discretion, the Moderator may intervene during the Q & A period, up to and including asking a Member to restate their question, requiring a Member or Candidate to yield for time, or other actions as required by SF Pride Policies and Procedures, standard practices for elections and/or in regard to common courtesy, civility or in the interest of time or in the best interest of SF Pride.
Member Meeting Calendar Dates
- November 15th, 2025 (Membership Renewal Event) [party]
- January 14th, 2026 (Grand Marshals + Speaker Topics) [meeting]
- March 11th, 2026 (Event Plans) [meeting]
- July 15th, 2026 (Post-event Appreciation Party) [party]
- September 5th, 2026 (Annual General Meeting) [meeting]