October 28, 2015 marked the occasion of the AIA San Mateo County’s Annual Meeting and elections for 2016. The Chapter additionally approved a long-overdue update of its bylaws from the previous edition of April, 2001, in particular adding elements that refer to how communication pieces are disseminated it our current digital age.
The meeting was also a time to help the Chapter’s Scholarship Fund. A $5 raffle ticket drawing for various donor door prizes was performed: TheatreWorks tickets, University Art gift cards, and a special wine trio, raising over $200 on the spot.
As for the elections to its Board 2016, the Directors are as follows:
| · President | Margaret Williams, AIA | 1 year term |
| · Past President, Ex Officio | Eric Holm, AIA | 1 year term |
| · Vice President | Heather Young, AIA | 1 year term |
| · Secretary | Robert Scheren, AIA | |
| · Treasurer | Robert Gooyer, AIA | |
| · Director — new term | Robin Severns, AIA | |
| · Director ‘Emerging Professionals’ — new term | Kristen Lomax, AIA | |
| · Director — new term | John Stewart, AIA | |
| · Director — current term | Terry Murphey, AIA | |
| · Director — current term | Libby Raab, AIA | |
| · Associates Director — current | Ann Marie Taheny, Assoc. AIA | |
| · AIACC Director — current | Kevin Norman, AIA | |
| · Executive Director | René Peraza | Staff |