🖊📜 It’s Professional Municipal Clerks Week, in its 56th year! Pictured below are Venice City Clerk Kelly Michaels, 2nd from right, with her team: Deputy City Clerk Toni Cone, Records Clerk Tracey Smith, Deputy City Clerk Mercedes Barcia, and Recording Secretary Amanda Hawkins-Brown. What do clerks do? A little bit of everything! Clerk Kelly had this word cloud installed in her office to list some of the many duties of the post. The clerk is the administrative and record keeping pivot between the elected officials, the public and all City departments. Day-to-day operational responsibilities vary but include office and meeting management, public relations, record-keeping, and reporting functions. Other duties involve elections, creating the annual budgets for the clerk and City Council’s operational needs, county, state, and federal report filings, procedural and technology needs for the clerk and Council, acting as the City’s official filing officer accepting petitions, applicati...