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Society Invites Candidates for 2005 Nominating Committee

By Raymond M. Nowicki

Continued from the Home Page

Under Article IX of the 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 Society staff.

Bylaw changes approved in 2003 require that petitions must be received by the NYSSCPA secretary on or before Aug. 12, 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 have been 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 2005 Nominating Committee will be Jan. 12, 2006, 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:

Deborah L. Bailey-Browne
Spencer L. Barback
Rosemarie A. Barnickel
Warren M. Bergstein
Arthur Bloom
Thomas P. Casey
Anthony Cassella
Joseph L. Charles
Ann B. Cohen
Michelle A. Cohen
Debbie A. Cutler
Anthony G. Duffy
Robert L. Ecker
Mark Ellis
David Evangelista
Robert Fagliarone
Joseph M. Falbo Jr.
Myrna L. Fischman
Daniel M. Fordham
Peter H. Frank
Phillip E. Goldstein
Phyllis Graybow
Neville Grusd
Arnold L. Haskell
Stanley M. Heller
Ronald J. Huefner
Raymond P. Jones
John J. Kearney
Don A. Kiamie
Nancy A. Kirby
Stephen F. Langowski
John J. Lauchert
Martin Leventhal
Norman W. Lipshie
Howard B. Lorch
Beatrix G. McKane
David J. Moynihan
Ian M. Nelson
Nancy Newman-Limata
Raymond M. Nowicki
Jason M. Palmer
James F. Passikoff
Richard E. Piluso
Walter M. Primoff
Joel C. Quall
Robert T. Quarte
Victor S. Rich
Thomas E. Riley
Susan R. Schoenfeld
Robert E. Sohr
C. Daniel Stubbs Jr.
Anthony J. Tanzi
Edward J. Torres
Stephen P. Valenti
Robert N. Waxman
Philip G. Westcott
Ellen L. Williams
Maryann M. Winters
Richard Zerah

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

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