Nanuet's Anne Byrne To Begin New Position on National School Board

President of the Nanuet Board of Education, Anne Byrne has been on the board for 30 years. However, this school board is not the only one she's involved in. She's also involved with the National School Boards Association. 

On Feb. 3, the national nominating committee nominated her for the position of secretary treasurer on the National School Board. Since the date has passed for any other candidates to turn in an application (Feb. 24), Byrne is running unopposed and will be elected by the delegate assembly at the NSBA Convention in Boston on April 20 and will take office on April 23. The position is currently held by David Pickler.

"David Pickler is doing a great job as secretary treasurer of NSBA. He will be moving up to the position of President elect," said Byrne. "I am excited at the prospect of becoming secretary treasurer. It is a great responsibilityand opportunity to keep the momentum moving forward for an even better NSBA. Our mission and vision are extremely important to the future of public education and our democracy."

The mission of NSBA is:

Working with and through our State Associations, NSBA advocates for Equity and Excellence in Public Education through School Board Leadership.

The vision of NSBA is:

National leadership that encourages outstanding school board governance toachieve student success. 

"I think we should always model good practices. School boards should always avail themselves of training to become better board members," said Byrne. "This experience will bring to me and, therefore to Nanuet, more information and more training to become more effective. We want our students to be life-long learners and this is a way to model that."

"It's great for us and our schools because she's a great advocate," said Nanuet School Board Vice President Ron Hansen. 

There are corporate and personal responsibilities of the secretary treasurer, according to Byrne.

"In the past few years, the job of secretary treasurer has evolved to become very transparent to ourschool board members," said Byrne. "Communicating our financial status in a clear concise format that is easily understood has been a priority of NSBA."

The secretary is the keeper of all the records of NSBA:

• Responsible for the minutes of the meetings
• Responsible for all financial transactions and records
• The keeper of the seal of NSBA

Other responsibilities include:

• being at every meeting
• reporting to the board at every meeting the financial condition of NSBA
• explaining to the executive directors of the state associations at their meetings
• reporting to the delegate assembly which is the representation of all the state associations at the annual meeting
• explaining the financial condition at the national regional meetings
• acts as anambassador for the organization
• performs duties assigned by the president or the board
• chairs the finance committee