PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, by the call of the Chair of the Board of Directors, the Nawakwa Outdoor Association of New York, Inc. ( NOANY) will hold an Annual Meeting of Members on October 14, 2023, at 10:00 a.m., which Annual Meeting will be held virtually.
The agenda for the meeting shall include:
• Election of officers and the board of directors of the Nawakwa Outdoor Association of New York, Inc. and
• such other and further business of NOANY.
This Notice will be distributed by email, posting to the website, posting in the Trail Marker, and USPS mailed to those members without email addresses.
All members of NOANY are invited to attend the virtual meeting. A link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to all members no later than Thursday evening, October 12, 2023. Attendance is not required to vote;
Voting will take place in person at Camp Nawakwa, between 11AM and 1PM or by proxy. Follow the instructions on the proxy form as to how to vote. By submitting a proxy, you are designating Eve Mancuso, the Secretary, as the one who will act as your proxy to cast your vote. All USPS mail-in proxies must be received no later than Friday October 13, 2023, so they can be picked up at the Post Office, delivered to Camp and available to be counted. Website and e-mail votes may be submitted until 12 noon on Saturday, October 14, 2022.
Counting will commence by the Tally Committee on October 14, 2023, at 1 pm at Camp Nawakwa.
In addition to posting to our website and to the Trail Marker, notice of the Annual Meeting and Elections will also be sent to all members by USPS mail.
Please Note: Two resolutions will be presented at the Annual Meeting for a vote by all members :
1. Members will be asked to vote on new Bylaws. Keyholders will remember that, as part of our settlement with the Adirondack Mountain Club last year, we needed to remove all mention of ADK from our then-current bylaws. Since then, our Bylaws Committee has been working with the law firm of John Caffry to update our Bylaws so that they conform to the latest changes in New York State Not-for-Profit Corporation law and so that the Bylaws fit more accurately our new status as the Nawakwa Outdoor Association of New York (for example, where we now have only one category of membership).
2. Amending our Certificate of Incorporation to update the objectives/purposes of the club so that they are the same in both the Certificate and the Bylaws. Right now the objectives as stated in the Bylaws do not match the authorized purposes of the corporation, as set forth in the 1931 certificate of incorporation.
ALL MEMBERS WILL BE SENT THE FULL TEXT OF THE BYLAWS, WITH HIGHLIGHTED AREAS OF NOTE, PRIOR TO THE OPEN BOARD MEETING OF AUGUST 16TH SO THAT QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS CAN BE PART OF OUR DISCUSSION AT THE MEETING.
THANK YOU. – NOANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS
