Jim Bernegger		Cooperstown
Martha Clarvoe	Secretary	Hartwick
Andree Conklin		Hartwick
Victoria Lentz, Ph.D.		New Lisbon
Willard Harman, Ph. D.		Cooperstown
John May, M.D.		Cooperstown
Win McIntyre	President	Cherry Valley
Bill Ralston		Cooperstown
Bennet Sandler	Treasurer	Fly Creek
Donna Vogler, Ph.D.		Oneonta
Dick deRosa		Cooperstown

Jim Bernegger, has been a member of the OCCA board of directors since 1995. He served as vice-president from 1997-1999 and as president from 2000-2002. He has a long standing interest in municipal and regional planning. He would like to see the connection between Otsego Lake and the Susquehanna River reinforced in the public mind and in public policy. In 2001, Mr. Bernegger served as chair of the Glimmerglass Coalition, which was formed to ensure adherence to the State Environmental Quality Review Process in towns where major developments were being proposed.

Martha Clarvoe, a resident of Hartwick since 1980, was elected to the OCCA board in 2000. She has a long history of involvement in environmental concerns, having participated in a junk mail recycling project with the League of Women Voters of the Cooperstown Area (of which she is a past president) and also in a pilot recycling project with 6 families in the late 1980's. Since joining the board, Clarvoe spends 20 hours or more weekly volunteering at OCCA. Besides helping with routine office work, she also played a key role in researching and organizing information for OCCA's light pollution brochure, researching possible recycling markets for agricultural plastics, recruiting volunteers for Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day, and producing OCCA's re-use and recycling guide for county residents. In 2005 she also worked with teachers at Cooperstown Middle and High Schools to create a recycling project of paper, bottles and cans. Clarvoe attends the Otsego County Solid Waste Committee meetings for OCCA and is a member of the Otsego County Burn Barrel Education Committee. She is instrumental in the management and operations of Cooperstown's can and bottle recycling program.

Andree Conklin, moved to the area in 1982 and has been a resident of Hartwick since 1993. She has been on the board since 1999. Formerly a dairy farmer in Sharon Springs, she now works as a historic domestic arts interpreter at the Farmers' Museum. Conklin has expressed a general concern about water quality in Otsego Lake and the Susquehanna River and, in particular, about the effects of agricultural herbicides and pesticides and their impact on our soil and water. She is an advocate of recycling of agricultural plastics. She collects and distributes oil-based paints at Otsego County's household hazardous waste day collection. (These paints would have otherwise been disposed of as hazardous waste and sent off to be burned as fuel.) She would like to see an exchange warehouse set up for the recycling of oil-based paints.

Willard Harman, who has served on OCCA's board since 1970, is a distinguished service professor and director of the SUNY-Oneonta Biological Field Station. He has been a Springfield resident since 1968, where he has been an active member of the town's planning board. His specialty is limnology (the scientific study of bodies of fresh water). In environmental matters, he is particularly concerned with "keeping an eye on Otsego" (Lake). His professional involvements include Vice president of the New York chapter of the Federation of Lake Associations (FOLA), representative for New York and New England lake associations on the federal Northeast Aquatic Nuisance Species Panel, member of the Susquehanna Drainage Basin Community Assistance Consortium, Upper Susquehanna River Monitors, SUNY-Cobleskill president's advisory committee for fisheries and wildlife technology, and member of the board of Otsego 2000, a local environmental planning organization.

John May joined the OCCA board in November 2002. With an exception of a five-year hiatus in the 1970's, he has resided in the Cooperstown area since 1973. A physician at Bassett Hospital with a specialty in pulmonary and occupational medicine, he is the director of the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH). He has conducted research on unwanted agri-chemicals on New York farms and served on Otsego County's Burn Barrel Education Committee. He has worked in collaboration with the New York Rural Water Association and Rural Community Assistance Program on a legislative proposal for funding of a statewide program for ongoing collection of unwanted and outdated and banned pesticides, as well as other agri-chemicals from active and inactive New York farm sites. He would also like to see a solution to problems associated with recycling agricultural plastics.

Bill Ralston, a Cooperstown resident since 1985, has served on the OCCA board since 1997. He participated in MOSA Watch, a group formed to monitor recycling efforts when the Montgomery Otsego Schoharie Solid Waste Authority was still conducting a recycling program. He was also a member of the Otsego County Environmental Management Council until its dissolution in 1996. He is interested in nature and the outdoors, enjoying camping, canoeing, birding, and cross-country skiing.

Donna Vogler, who joined the board in January 2003, is an assistant professor of biology at SUNY-Oneonta, teaching courses in ecology, plant ecology, and environmental science. A resident of Oneonta, she is a former employee of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She has been an active member of the Oneonta Susquehanna Greenway Project. Since joining the board, Dr. Vogler has been a valuable contributor to OCCA's initiative to compile a natural resources survey for Otsego County. Other interests she would like to pursue with the board include wetland protection as well as support of working farms and sustainable forestry.

Bennett Sandler joined the board in 2004, having moved to Otsego County in 1998. He holds a master's degree in landscape ecology and has worked in both the private sector and in academia using remotely sensed data and Geographical Information Systems, or GIS, to map ecological phenomena. He has worked with the Otsego Land Trust, Pine Lake Environmental Campus of Hartwick College, the Glimmerglass Coalition, the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and the Otsego County Planning Department as a GIS consultant. Since 2003, Sandler has participated in the OCCA-led Otsego County natural resources inventory and was a key organizer of the "Unique Natural Areas Workshop" sponsored by OCCA last year. He has also made forays in the integration of GIS technology into local planning boards.

Win McIntyre is a retired Proctor and Gamble chemical engineer. A former lake property owner, he has been working intensively on watershed issues since 1999. In 2000, he completed Water Resources program at the State University College at Oneonta. In the same year, he was appointed watershed manager by the Otsego Lake Watershed Council, which has since dissolved. Some of his major projects include placement of no-wake-zone buoys on Otsego Lake, a plan for the dredging and repair of Clarke Pond, wetland restoration projects carried out in partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers, and riparian buffer plans. Upon the dissolution of the Watershed Council, McIntyre became a water resource management consultant and was subsequently retained by the Otsego Lake Watershed Supervisory Committee as watershed coordinator. His prinicipal role in that capacity is the directorship of the septic system management plan for Otsego Lake. Since 2003, he has over seen the implementation of the septic system management plan for Otsego Lake.

McIntyre became president in November of 2006.