President's Message
Celebrations
By Donna Bumgarner, CPA
 More than 75 Silicon Valley San Jose Chapter CPAs, friends and family members attended the June 12 San Jose Giants baseball game at Municipal Stadium. Just prior to the first pitch, past president David Veyna took the opportunity to gratefully recognize the service of our prior year’s chapter officers and board—while a sheriff’s helicopter was landing on the baseball field. As this year’s president, I received the chapter’s gavel and then introduced the new slate of officers. As part of the event, we enjoyed a delicious barbecue dinner on the VIP Deck and cheered on the Giants as they defeated the Modesto Nuts 5–3. My thanks to those who attended this installation celebration, especially to the members of my firm who showed up in full force. On behalf of the chapter, I also want to thank David and all of last year’s chapter leaders for their contributions to the many successes our chapter enjoyed during the 2008–09 year.
The CalCPA Annual Members’ Business and Council meeting was held June 18–19 in San Francisco. More than 100 California CPAs attended the meeting. We were addressed by a legislative panel led by Assembly members Fiona Ma and Mary Hayashi, who summarized the status of several bills in the Assembly. CalCPA is sponsoring SB 691, which is co-authored by Assembly member Ma and will require that all candidates entering the profession after Jan. 1, 2014, meet the 150-hour educational requirement (a total of 150 units with a bachelor’s degree, including at least 24 units in business and 24 units in accounting). The success of this legislation is essential to allowing current and future California CPAs to represent the needs of their clients with interests in other states. Ma indicated that our voice in Sacramento is stronger than ever due to our increased membership, which now exceeds 35,000, and to the vigilant services of Bruce Allen, CalCPA’s government relations director.
The meeting’s final event was a gala dinner and dance held in the grand ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel atop Nob Hill in San Francisco. Several hundred CalCPA members and their guests were dressed in their finest, and there was an enthusiastic crowd on the dance floor throughout the evening. It was a fitting conclusion to our celebration of CalCPA’s 100th anniversary.
By the way, have any of you had the opportunity to attend that extra chapter event yet? Please take this opportunity to accept the challenge I shared in May in my first “President’s Message.”
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Does anyone read this email???? I find only 2 comments
listed since the first of the year, and both were by the author, I think.
May I suggest a review and change for how it’s used.
It seems sort of useless right now.