The NOANY revised Bylaws and Bylaws comments are posted for your review. These are being provided in advance of the Board meeting so you may have the opportunity to read these documents. You may ask questions regarding the revised Bylaws at the August 16 Open Board meeting.

Further information regarding the Zoom link to join the Open Board meeting will be sent next week.

Regards,

Eve Mancuso

Secretary to the Board

BYLAWS (Final Revision incorporating all suggestions from John Caffry) 71023 copy

For the Open Board Meeting – Bylaws Comments

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

The FOURTH herbicide treatment in Lake Sebago is scheduled for Thursday July 27th to target hydrilla. This is the fourth of a maximum of 6 treatments for 2023.

-A 24-hour swimming restriction for the Northern Basin Only will be in place from the morning of Thursday July 27th to the morning of Friday July 28th, 2023. The swimming restriction will be lifted by 12:00pm on Friday July 28th, 2023.

-There is no swimming restriction in the southern basin. 

-There are no swimming restrictions for the copper (Harpoon) treatment. 

Several hydrilla plants are staked with green stakes throughout the lake, please avoid the stakes so that we can keep our sites clearly and accurately marked. Thank you!

Camp is not in the Northern Basin, so we are not directly affected by the swimming restrictions.

You can find more information about the treatment on the project website. 

SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE

Open Board Meeting

August 16, 2023

Our yearly Open Board Meeting for all NOANY members will be held on Wednesday August 16, 2023, at 7PM. As we have done in recent years, the Open Board Meeting will take place via Zoom. Susanne Flower, Board Director, will set the meeting up and Eve Mancuso, Board Secretary, will send out an e-mail to all members and applicants with the information needed to login.

Participants may ask questions/make comments in three ways:

1. Via the Zoom Chat function during the meeting

2. E-mail questions directly to Susanne Flower (susanneflower@gmail.com)

3. Send written questions via USPS mail to:

​Nawakwa Outdoor Association of New York, Inc.

​Peter Stuyvesant Post Office Station

​P. O. Box 327

​New York, NY 10009-9998

Methods 2 and 3 should be completed should be completed by Tuesday, August 15th prior to the open meeting to give Susanne Flower the opportunity to gather all of the questions/comments. The questions will be read by the Zoom Host and answered by the appropriate Board member.

The yearly gathering of our members provides an opportunity for all to receive updates on the status of the club, the workings of the Board and all committees, and current projects in development. While there will be no voting at the meeting, important business matters will be addressed. The questions and answers, comments and suggestions, and the general discussion of topics among those participating in these yearly meetings have always been helpful in considering future plans and action.

– NOANY Board of Directors