{"id":2103,"date":"2026-01-07T08:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:55:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:55:42","slug":"referendum-to-extend-officer-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/2026\/01\/07\/referendum-to-extend-officer-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Referendum to Extend Officer Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NEB passed <span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Motion #17-11-25<\/strong><\/span> in closed session on December 18, 2025, to fund $40,000 for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/2026-referendum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>special referendum<\/strong><\/a> to extend the terms of office for current and future national officers. The current term limits are two years for the national president, secretary-treasurer, and ten regional vice presidents, with two terms for the president and three terms for the other officers. The proposed change is to elect national and regional officers to three-year terms, with two-year term limits. A proviso is added that current officers who are about to be \u201ctermed-out\u201d may extend their term by an additional three years. Members are urged to vote when the ballots are emailed on 1\/26\/26. Those without an email on record may contact NARFE HQ to request a paper ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NEB passed Motion #17-11-25 in closed sessions on December 18, 2025 to fund $40,000 for a special referendum to extend the terms of office for current and future national officers. Ballots will be emailed on January 26, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2026\/01\/narfe-referendum-vote-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}