In the February 15, 2023 Annual Membership Meeting of Baltimore Sister Cities, Inc., (BSC), the following items (A, B, and C) will be submitted for approval by the BSC membership. The meeting will be held online via Zoom at 6:00pm ET. The information has been posted on this webpage so that members have a chance to review it before the meeting.

Who can vote in the BSC Annual Membership Meeting:

• Members of BSC’s constituent sister city committees who have paid their 2023 membership dues — both Regular and Associate level members.

A. 2022 ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT

(for BSC-level activities and activities for the constituent sister city committees)

View proposed 2022 Accomplishments Report (PDF, 3.7mb)

PDF updated on: 2023-02-04 2:15pm ET

B. 2023 PLAN

(for BSC-level activities and activities for the constituent sister city committees)

View proposed 2023 Plan (PDF, 2.6mb)

PDF posted on: 2023-01-29 1:30pm ET

C. Board Elections

Below is the list of board directors that represent sister city committees and other organizations on our board, as defined in our bylaws.

Persons indicated in bold font with an asterisk (*) are nominees, up for election this year. These nominations were made by the sister city committees and other organizations represented on our BSC, Inc. board. Opposing nominations, if desired, can be made at the February 15, 2023 Annual Membership Meeting.

Persons WITHOUT an asterisk are in the middle of their board term and therefore NOT up for reelection on February 15, 2023.

Organization	Representative	Term (2 years)
BSC:	Changwon (BCSCC) Representative: Michelle Lee *	2023 & 2024
	Gbarnga (BGSCC) Representative: Luana Kiandoli	2022 & 2023
	Kawasaki (BKSCC) Representative: Jay Gordon *	2023 & 2024
	Luxor-Alexandria (BLASCC) Representative: Karen Leggett Abouraya *	2023 & 2024
	Odesa (BOSCC) Representative: Karina Mandell	2022 & 2023
	Piraeus (BPSCC) Representative: Diane Homberg	2022 & 2023
	Rotterdam (BRSCC) Representative: Gary Davison	2022 & 2023
	Xiamen (BXSCC) Representative: Hosea Chew *	2023 & 2024
Mayor’s Office:	Baltimore Mayor’s Office Representative: Nina Themelis (Deputy Director, Mayor’s Office of Government Relations)	2022 & 2023
MIMA:	Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Representative: Masuma Islam Lonczak *	2023 & 2024
BDC:	Baltimore Development Corporation Representative: William Cawthern (Director of Baltimore Foreign Trade Zone #74)	2022 & 2023
BOPA:	Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts Representative: Lauren Green * (Director of Marketing)	2023 & 2024

Note:

The positions of the non-voting (a.k.a. co-opted) board members (currently Fontaine Bell, Geri Byrd, Hosea Chew, Teresa Leslie, Nancy Taylor) are not approved at the Annual Membership Meeting but at the 1st regular Board Meeting of the year following the annual meeting. This year, the Board Meeting immediately follows the Annual Membership Meeting on February 15, 2023. BSC Executive Officers are also elected at the February 15 Board Meeting. The officer positions up for election this year are: Vice President, Secretary, and Assistant Treasurer. See the ballot topics for the February 15 Board Meeting.

D. Sister City Committee Chairs

The following list is informational only. The chairs are elected by their committee members. The chairs are not elected in the BSC Annual Membership Meeting.

Committee	Chair	Term (2 years)
Changwon (BCSCC)	Michelle Lee	2022 & 2023
Gbarnga (BGSCC)	Luana Kiandoli	2022 & 2023
Kawasaki (BKSCC)	Jay Gordon	2023 & 2024
Luxor-Alexandria (BLASCC)	Karen Leggett Abouraya & Tharwat Abouraya (co-chairs)	2022 & 2023
Odesa (BOSCC)	Karina Mandell	2022 & 2023
Piraeus (BPSCC)	Diane Homberg	2022 & 2023
Rotterdam (BRSCC)	Rachel Sengers	2022 & 2023
Xiamen (BXSCC)	Xin (Cindy) Wang	2022 & 2023

Note

The 1st Board Meeting of 2023 immediately follows the Annual Membership meeting.

This webpage was last updated on 2023-02-06.

In Baltimore Sister Cities, Inc., (BSC)’s first Board Meeting of 2023, the following items will be submitted for approval by voting members of the board. This board meeting will be at 6:30pm ET on February 15, 2023, immediately following the Annual Membership Meeting. The meeting will be held online via Zoom. The information has been posted on this webpage so that members have a chance to review it before the meeting.

Ballot: sections A and B below will be voted on via an online ballot using the ElectionBuddy platform.

Who can vote in the BSC Board Meetings:

• Board directors that represent sister city committees and other organizations on our board, as defined in our bylaws. These directors are elected in the 2023 Annual Membership Meeting immediately preceding the Board Meeting (see candidates’ names in section C of the Annual Membership Meeting’s ballot topics page).

A. BSC Executive Officers

BSC’s bylaws defined the Board’s Executive Committee as consisting of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and the Sister Cities Liaison from the Office of the Mayor.

Positions indicated in bold font with an asterisk (*) are up for election during this board meeting. Some positions have more than one nominee; some have no nominees yet. Positions with no nominees can be voted on later in the year, when a nominee becomes available.

Positions WITHOUT an asterisk are in the middle of their term and therefore NOT up for reelection on February 15, 2023.

Position	Person	Term
President	Teresa Leslie	2022-02-23 – 2024-02-29
Vice President *	2 nominees: Nancy Taylor (view resume PDF) Quishaun Holmes (view resume PDF)	2023-02-15 – 2025-02-28
Secretary *	[ No nominees available ]
Acting Secretary	Fontaine Bell	2022-12-07 – 2023-12-31
Treasurer	Dan Young	2022-02-23 – 2024-02-29

B. Alternate Director Representatives

In the Annual Membership Meeting preceding this Board Meeting, the BSC membership votes in the board directors that represent sister city committees and other organizations that are defined in our bylaws (see candidates’ names in section C of the Annual Membership Meeting’s ballot topics page).

During Board Meetings, if a Director may not be able to attend all scheduled Board meetings during his/her tenure, it can request Board approval for an alternate Director to attend, with full voting rights, any future meetings that its Director is unable to attend.

Persons indicated in bold font with an asterisk (*) will be voted on during this board meeting.

Organization	Alternate Director	Term
BSC:	Alternate representative for Gbarnga (BGSCC): Will Hug	2022-02-23 – 2023-12-31
BSC:	Alternate representative for Luxor-Alexandria (BLASCC): Erin Divers *	2023-02-15 – 2024-02-29
BSC:	Alternate representative for Xiamen (BXSCC): Xin (Cindy) Wang	2022-02-23 – 2023-12-31

C. Other agenda items for voting

Board members will be asked to vote to approve:

• Dec 7, 2022 board meeting minutes (view PDF)
• BSC’s 2022 Year-end Financials report as of Dec 31, 2022:
  • Balance sheet (view PDF)
  • Profit & Loss statement (view PDF)
• January 31, 2023 Financial report:
  • Balance sheet (view PDF)
  • Profit & Loss statement (view PDF)

Notes

The Finance Committee members [Dan Young (Chair), Teresa Leslie, Fontaine Bell, and Gislin Dagnelie] were voted in on February 23, 2022 for 2-year terms ending in February 2024, so they are not up for election in February 2023.

This webpage was last updated on 2023-02-13 at 7:20pm ET.

In the January 29, 2021 annual membership meeting of Baltimore Sister Cities, Inc., (BSC, Inc.) the following items will be submitted for approval by the BSC, Inc. membership (members of BSC board and the constituent sister city committees). The information has been posted on this webpage so that members have a chance to review it before the January 29, 2021 meeting.

A. 2020 ACCOMPLISHMENTS REPORT

(for BSC-level activities and activities for the constituent sister city committees)

View proposed 2020 Accomplishments Report (PDF, 1.7mb)

PDF last updated: 2021-01-24 9pm ET

B. 2021 PLAN

(for BSC-level activities and activities for the constituent sister city committees)

View proposed 2021 Plan (PDF, 1.4mb)

PDF last updated: 2021-01-24 9pm ET

C. Board Elections

Below is the list of board directors that represent sister city committees and other organizations on our board, as defined in our bylaws.

Persons in bold font with an asterisk (*) are nominees, up for election this year. These nominations were made by the sister city committees and other organizations represented on our BSC, Inc. board. Opposing nominations, if desired, can be made at the January 29, 2021 annual meeting.

Persons WITHOUT an asterisk are in the middle of their board term and therefore NOT up for reelection this year.

BSC:	Changwon (BCSCC) Representative: Michelle Lee *
	Gbarnga (BGSCC) Representative: Tambi Taylor
	Kawasaki (BKSCC) Representative: Jay Gordon *
	Luxor-Alexandria (BLASCC) Representative: Karen Leggett Abouraya *
	Piraeus (BPSCC) Representative: Diane Homberg
	Rotterdam (BRSCC) Representative: Gary Davison
	Xiamen (BXSCC) Representative: Xin (Cindy) Wang
BDC:	Baltimore Development Corporation Representative: Larry Collins (Director of Foreign Trade Zone)
BOPA:	Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts Representative: Laura Green * (Director of Marketing)
Mayor’s Office:	Baltimore Mayor’s Office Representative: Leslie Carter * (Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Administration)
MIMA:	Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs Representative: Catalina Rodriguez-Lima * (Director of MIMA)

Update: Added Leslie Carter and Catalina Rodriguez-Lima to the above list on 2021-01-28 at 2:26 pm ET

Note: Non-voting board members (currently Geri Byrd, Hosea Chew, and Nancy Taylor) are not approved at the Annual Membership Meeting but at the 1st regular board meeting of the year following the annual meeting. This year that board meeting is scheduled for February 24, 2021. BSC officers are also elected at the February 24 meeting. The officer positions to be elected this year are: Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and Assistant Secretary.