Secretary

Overview

The secretary is a volunteer position, elected by the board to a one-year term until a qualified successor is elected.

Responsibilities

• Meeting Minutes management, recording, drafting, and distributing for all Board of Trustees meetings and Membership meetings
• Corporate Filing assurance of documents to maintain the organization’s corporate status
• Member Correspondence of meeting notification, election notices, and constitutional change alerts
• Board Document Distribution of minutes and necessary documents
• Ballot Management including preparation oversight and counting of ballots during annual elections for Trustees and Officers

Qualifications

• Filing state-level documents and compliance with nonprofit transparency laws
• Support of executive meetings, logistics, agenda setting and document distribution.
• Strict adherence to governing documents
• Ability to distill complex discussions into concise, accurate, and objective formal minutes.

Current Secretary

Marilyn Berry

Marilyn’s great-grandmother was born in Bedford in 1884 but it wasn’t until her maternal grandparents moved here from Cleveland that they became true residents.  Born and raised in Bedford, Marilyn graduated from Lumen Cordium High School in 1985 and is proud to have been part of building APEC Engineering along with her husband and two sons, in their family-owned business in the old YMCA on Northfield Road. 

“For me Bedford has always been about relationships.  I still see people from my days at the pool, working at the playgrounds, student teaching at the high school, coaching little league, hanging out at DePompei’s, and now working alongside friends, old and new, at the Bedford Historical Society to write the next chapter in Bedford’s history.”