We use a constituency to track board members, and another constituency to track former board members. However, this does not allow us to reflect situations such as someone was on the board for nine years, then off for one, then re-elected to the board. Does anyone have a good way to store this information in Tess? We've considered Research Notes and Activities, but neither of them is very helpful. We'd like, for instance, to be able to answer questions like, "who was on the board in 2010?"
We recently started using an Attribute called "Board Member FY" which allows users to type in the fiscal year a person was on the Board. The Attribute is set-up to allow for multiple values so we can track each year the person was on the Board. We still use constituencies similar to the ones you do, but now we've got definitive detail as well.