IMPORTANT - ACT NOW ! ! !

 

All eligible members were sent Ballots and Instructions regarding your IHHA Directors Election, final balloting to be held Saturday, August 18, 12:00 noon, Balmoral Race Track.  IF YOU HAVE NOT YET MAILED IN YOUR BALLOT, PLEASE DO IT TODAY, (as per instructions, mailed ballots must be received by 5:00pm, Friday, August 17, 2007 by the Election Supervisor - McGladrey & Pullen, LLP. ) ALSO, BALLOTS (VOTES) MAY BE CAST IN PERSON AT THE ELECTIONS MEETING AUGUST 18 BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 12:00 am TO 12:30pm.  YOUR VOTE DOES MATTER AND CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, SO PLEASE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT THE CANDIDATE(S) THAT YOU FEEL WILL BEST REPRESENT YOUR NEEDS AND THE NEEDS OF THE HARNESS INDUSTRY.    LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD WITHIN YOUR IHHA!!

IMPORTANT RE: ELECTIONS BALLOTS

       The election ballots and two (2) envelopes were recently mailed to eligible members (PAID MEMBERSHIPS AS OF JUNE 30, 2007).  You should have received:  Vote Ballot...Secret Ballot Envelope...Return Mail Envelope.   If you did not receive all three (3) items, please advise IHHA office (630-323-0808) and any missing item(s) will be immediately mailed to you.

 

 

 2007 IHHA ELECTION

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 For Immediate Release  6-29-07

Candidates File for
Illinois Harness Horsemen’s Association
(IHHA) Board Seats

Hinsdale, IL...The Illinois Harness Horsemen's Association (IHHA) announced that its 2007 Board of Director Elections will take place at the Annual Meeting on August 18, 2007, at 12:00 noon at Balmoral Park Race Track located at 26435 S. Dixie Highway in Crete, Illinois. 

To be elected at the annual meeting will be five (5) directors to serve terms of three (3) years each.  The following 13 candidates filed petitions to be placed on the ballot for election to the Board:                                                                  

Al Beals, Berwyn, IL

Martin engel, buffalo grove, IL

Dale Kanitz, Olney, IL

Michael Knicley, Newton, IL

Bruce Krause, Chicago Heights, IL.

Ronnie Roberts, Compton, IL

Duncan Price, Grant Park, IL

Wm. Todd Pudik, lewistown, il

BRANDON SIMPSON, CRETE, IL

Ira Smolin, Beecher, IL

Roger Welch, Beecher, IL

SAM WIDGER, BEECHER, IL

Rita Williams, North Henderson, IL

Ballots and Notice of the Annual Meeting will be mailed to all IHHA members in good standing on July 19, 2007 through the offices of McGladrey and Pullen, LLP., Certified Public Accountants, which have been retained as the official Election Supervisor in conjunction with Article III of the IHHA By-Laws. 

 

For more information, please contact Noel at the IHHA office, (630)-323-0808.

 

 

                                   IHHA NOTICE OF ELECTION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

of the

Illinois Harness Horsemen's Association

Saturday, August 18, 2007 --12:00 noon

Balmoral Race Course

The annual meeting and election of directors of the

Illinois Harness Horsemen's Association will be held

Saturday, August 18, 2007 at Balmoral Race Track,

26435 S. Dixie Highway in Crete, Illinois beginning at 12:00 noon.

Balloting will be conducted from 12:00 noon to 12:30 p.m.

To be elected at the annual meeting will be five (5) directors to serve terms of three (3) years each.

Directors currently on the Board who must seek re-election if they wish to remain on the Board are: Bruce Krause, Duncan Price, Ronnie Roberts, Ken Rucker, Ira Smolin.

To be placed on the ballot for the election, candidates must file a notice of intent to be a candidate for election with the signatures of a least twenty (20) members in good standing. The notice of intent (Nominating Petition), must be filed via registered mail or by delivery to the IHHA main office, and received at the office of the Association (15 Spinning Wheel Road, Suite 432, Hinsdale, IL 60521), petitions may be circulated beginning Saturday, June 9, 2007 through the close of business (5:00 p.m.), Friday, June 29, 2007. Nominating petitions are available at the Association office. To request a petition, write the Association at the above address or call (630) 323-0808 or (800) 572-0213 within Illinois.  Or you can print from the link(s) below, both forms are required.

Notice Of Intent

Nomination Petition

Absentee ballots will be mailed to the membership on Thursday, July 19, 2007 with the deadline for receipt of those ballots being Friday, August 17, 2007, at 5:00 p.m. at the offices of McGladrey and Pullen, LLP. Suite 300, 570 Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, IL 60015, which has been retained as the official Election Supervisor in conjunction with Article III of the IHHA By-Laws.

Only members in good standing the last day of June, 2007 shall be entitled to vote.

All questions concerning the election will be ruled on by the Election Supervisor.