Society Invites Candidates for 2004 Nominating Committee

By Raymond M. Nowicki

This year’s 11-person Nominating Committee will nominate a president-elect, three vice presidents, a treasurer, five at-large directors and directors from the Adirondack, Brooklyn, Nassau, Rochester, Staten Island and Suffolk chapters. Under Article IX of the recently revised bylaws, the CPA membership-at-large fills nine Nominating Committee positions and the board of directors designates the remaining two members. A copy of the bylaws can be obtained at www.nysscpa.org/society/bylaws.htm or by contacting Society staff.

There is a new deadline for petitions to submit names for the Nominating Committee this year. The bylaw changes approved in 2003 require that these petitions must be received by the NYSSCPA secretary on or before Aug. 13, the second Friday in August. Members can download a petition form directly from the Society’s website at www.nysscpa.org/governance/nomination_center.htm, or contact Pat Agard at 212-719-8302 or pagard@nysscpa.org.

Each petition must be signed by at least 10 members other than the nominee. Members may sign only one petition. The signatures of members signing multiple petitions are disregarded on all the petitions they sign. Petition signers must certify that the nominee would serve if elected. Petition signers must have been NYSSCPA CPA members for at least five consecutive years.

A candidate for the Nominating Committee must not be a current member of the board of directors or a member of the Nominating Committee for either of the two preceding fiscal years. In addition, he or she must have been a member of the Society for at least five continuous years, including at least two years of some combination of committee participation or chapter executive board service, or both.

Nominating Committee candidates should know that Nominating Committee members may not themselves be nominated by the committee for any position. The first meeting date for the 2004 Nominating Committee will be Jan. 13, 2005, unless the committee unanimously agrees to meet earlier.

The following members are ineligible because of current membership on the board of directors or because of service on either the 2003 or the 2004 Nominating Committee:

Raymond M. Nowicki, CPA, is secretary of the NYSSCPA and the managing partner of Nowicki and Company, LLP, in Buffalo.