A group of Durango Natural Foods Co-op members have collected enough signatures to put the removal of the DNF board up to a vote.<\/p>\n
Board President Geoff Wolf said, in statement, a Sept. 22 board meeting will set the date for an election. The election must be held at least 60 days from Sept. 9, but no longer than 90 days from Sept. 9. A simple majority of those who vote will determine the outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe board will decide the date, time and place of the meeting,\u201d Wolf said Thursday. \u201cNotice and ballots will be as provided in Section 3.4 of the bylaws.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recall effort was triggered by the conversations of DNF board members with their counterparts at La Montanita Food Co-op of Albuquerque about merging the two cooperatives.<\/p>\n
DNF members unhappy with the possibility of a merger said they were not informed of the talks. They saw DNF becoming a subsidiary of the much larger La Montanita.<\/p>\n
The recall effort required signatures of 10 percent of DNF active members to bring about a recall vote; the final count showed 14.3 percent signed petitions. The co-op has almost 1,300 active members.<\/p>\n