2010 CCEA Election

Dear CCEA Members:

The six week long 2010 CCEA election has come to a successful conclusion. We are so fortunate to have a big group of highly qualified candidates in this election. They all deserve our admiration and appreciation for their willingness and devotion in serving our members and our communities. They are all great role models and have set great examples of promoting volunteerism in our organization. They are all great assets to our organization whether they are elected or not. We are here to solute them and wish them all the best.

The election committee announced the official election results at the CCEA-CCCS Chinese New Year Celebration Party on January 30, 2010. This announcement is intended to inform all our members the official election results in writing and also to officially conclude the 2010 CCEA Election.

As of the mid-night of Friday, January 29, 2010, there are 79 legitimate ballots received and tallied by the election committee. The record setting election turn out rate is 83%. Based on the final ballot tallies and the CCEA Bylaws Article 5.2 “The Council shall have the authority to elect the President by a simple majority vote” and Article 5.3 “The Council shall have the authority to elect a Board of Directors by a simple majority vote”, the President-elect of CCEA is Mr. Cliff Li and the Board Directors-elect are Frank Cao, Kang Chen, John Feng, Liqun Ke, and Lily Wang. Congratulations to all newly elected CCEA officers! We believe that the new CCEA leadership is going to continue to strive for excellence and to make our organization thriving in our communities.

You can check the final election ballot tallies on the CCEA website here.

The members of the election committee have felt so honored for being able to serve our organization and its members during this election. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all our members for such unparalleled participations in this election and for giving us and the organization such overwhelming support through out the six week long election process. Your enthusiastic involvement surely makes our CCEA a better, stronger, and more vibrant organization. We also want to express our sincere gratitude towards the out-going President, Mr. Shawn Wei, and his Board of Directors for putting their trust and strong support behind us to conduct this election.

This announcement concludes the 2010 CCEA Election and we hope you will continue to actively participate in and support CCEA in the future.

Best wishes to you all in the Year of Tiger!

2010 CCEA Election Committee

Ke Zhou (Chair)

Zairen Luo

Jinxing Zha