Society Invites Candidates for 2004 Nominating Committee

By Thomas E. Riley

This year’s 11-person Nominating Committee will nominate a president-elect, three vice presidents, a secretary, five at-large directors, and directors from the Mid-Hudson, Northeast, Rockland, Utica and Queens chapters. Under Article IX of the recently revised New York State Society of CPAs 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 the Society.

Petitions to submit names for the Nominating Committee should be sent to the NYSSCPA secretary, care of Pat Agard at the Society, between now and the morning of the first general meeting of the Society membership after Oct. 1, scheduled this year for Nov. 13 at the Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway (between 45 and 46 Streets in Manhattan). Members can download a petition form directly from the Society’s website at http://www.nysscpa.org/governance/nomination_center.htm or receive by contacting Ms. Agard at 212-719-8302 or pagard@nysscpa.org.

Each petition must be signed by at least 10 members other than the nominee. 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. Beginning this year, members may sign only one petition. The signatures of members signing multiple petitions are disregarded on all the petitions they sign.

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 2003 Nominating Committee will be Jan. 8, 2004, 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 2001 or the 2002 Nominating Committee: