Society Names Nominating Committee
Recommends AICPA Council Reps

By Simon Eskow

NEW YORK—The New York State Society of CPAs has selected members to sit on the 2004 Nominating Committee, charged with selecting Society officers for the next fiscal year. The board of directors also has recommended other members to represent the Society at the American Institute of CPAs.

During the Society’s Annual Election Meeting on Nov. 13, NYSSCPA members nominated eight members by petition this year, requiring the board to fill one vacancy. Under new NYSSCPA bylaws—which increased the size of the committee from nine to 11—if the Society receives nine or fewer eligible candidates, those members automatically are put onto the committee, and the board must appoint members in addition to the two members it customarily appoints, to ensure that exactly 11 members serve on the committee.

The members named to the Nominating Committee are: Anthony Cassella, Joseph Charles, Mark Ellis, Phyllis Graybow, Norman Lipshie, Ian Nelson, Nancy Newman-Limata, James Passikoff, Joel Quall, Bob Sohr and Maryann Winters.

The board in November also selected other members whom it will recommend to the AICPA’s Nominating Committee to serve as Society representatives to the Institute’s Governing Council. The members include Peter Berlant, John Kearney and Vince Love for three-year terms, and for a one-year term. In addition, the Society recommended that the 2004–2005 president-elect serve for a three-year term as well.

The Society’s Nominating Committee will meet on Jan. 8, when it is expected to nominate a president-elect.

The AICPA’s Nominating Committee is likely to meet in February or March, when it will act on the NYSS-CPA’s recommendations for the AICPA Council.

Nominating Committee Slate at Annual Meeting

During the Annual Meeting at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York, the Society announced the list of eight candidates it had received from members. Last year, the Society received more than nine, triggering a run-off ballot.

The Nominating Committee this year will nominate three vice presidents, a secretary, five at-large directors, and directors from the Mid-Hudson, Northeast, Rockland, Utica and Queens chapters, in addition to the president-elect.

As of this writing, a committee chair had yet to be designated.