Governance elections for the NYSCA Officers and Regional Directors are beginning to ramp up.  Members interested in campaigning for a position on the NYSCA Executive Board or Board of Directors should start planning now. 

As most of us have said from time to time under a variety of different circumstances, “if only I were in charge.”  Well, if you have not before, here is your opportunity to put those sentiments into an affirmative action plan to contribute to the future of our profession in New York state. 

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As a not-for-profit professional trade organization in New York, the NYSCA Constitution and Bylaws dictate the qualifications needed to campaign for either an officer’s position or a seat on the Board as a regional director.

2025 NYSCA Elections—Open Positions

Because this is an odd-numbered year (2025) all five officer positions – president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, and communications secretary -- are open for election. 

And because it’s an odd-numbered year, there are six regional directors’ positions open on the Board:

• three (3) each representing region 1 comprised of NYSCA Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5. (i.e, the 5 boroughs of New York City); and
• three (3) each representing Region 3 comprised of NYSCA Districts 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14 (i.e. Westchester, Dutchess, Putnam, Rockland, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, Greene, Columbia, Rensselaer, Albany, Schenectady, Schoharie, Montgomery, Fulton, Saratoga, Hamilton, Warren, Washington, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence, Herkimer, Oneida, Madison, Otsego, Chenango, Delaware and Broome Counties.

Certain incumbent directors will be eligible to re-run for the position each now holds.

2026 NYSCA Elections

Positions for Regional Directors in Regions 2 and 4 will be open for election next year, 2026, since it will be an even-numbered year. 

Executive Officer Positions

To be eligible to campaign for an officer’s position, candidates must meet the following qualifications:

• The candidate must be an active regular, associate, in-state affiliate, or life member in good standing for a minimum of five (5) consecutive years;
• The candidate must have attended at least seventy percent (70%) of his/her district meetings in the year immediately preceding nomination;
• The candidate shall be eligible to serve and shall have served as a Director on the Board of Directors for not less than one full term.  In addition, the nominee shall have attended no less than 2/3rds of the Board meetings convened during each year during their tenure as a Regional Director.

Regional Director Positions

To be eligible to campaign for the position of regional director, candidates must meet the following qualifications:

• The candidate must work or reside in a district that falls in the area represented by either Region 1 or Region 3;
• The candidate must have served as an officer of the district or a delegate representing a district to the NYSCA House of Delegates in  either Region 1 or Region 3;
• The candidate must have been an active member of the Association for the three (3) years immediately preceding nomination; and
• The candidate must have attended at least seventy percent (70%) of district meetings in the year immediately preceding nomination.

Application Process

NYSCA members meeting the qualifications for office may self-nominate themselves for a position on the NYSCA Board or they may be nominated by other NYSCA members for a position on the Board.  All candidates aspiring to a Board position need to formally accept their nomination by filling in an “Intent to Run” form, linked on the NYSCA Elections page under “Application Process.” 

Submit Your Intent to Run

In addition, candidates will also need to fill out a “Disclosure form” – part of the “Intent-to-Run” packet, in order to provide the Association membership with notice involving any potential conflicts of interest the candidate may have and which the Association should be made aware of in its deliberations that may involve any private or personal interests of the candidate or their practice enterprises the nominee may hold in their private or professional life. Disclosure of a conflict does not necessarily disqualify a candidate from holding office but may require that they abstain from voting on relevant issues or activities involving the Association whenever and wherever the stated conflict may arise.

Finally, all candidates must fill out a curriculum vitae (CV) – again, part of the “Intent-to-Run” packet -- highlighting their education and training, licenses held, and personal and professional achievements and awards received.  The Association uses the information obtained from the CV to construct a biographical sketch on each candidate that is supplied to the NYSCA membership when ballots in a contested election are distributed.

All three items – the Intent to Run, Disclosure and CV forms -- necessary to declare an intent to campaign for a NYSCA leadership position are found in the “Intent-to-Run” packet noted above. 

Interested nominees must submit the components of a completed Intent-to-Run form to the Association by April 1.  Ballots in contested elections are scheduled to be emailed by May 1.  Successful candidates assume elected office on June 1, the beginning of the next NYSCA fiscal year.