The GFOA's new president-elect and executive board.

The Government Finance Officers Association is governed by an 18-member Executive Board, which consists of 15 members-at-large serving staggered three-year terms, the current president, the previous year's president, and the president-elect. At the association's annual meeting in June 2015, GFOA members voted for a slate of nominees for president-elect and five new members-at-large, each of whom is profiled below.

PRESIDENT-ELECT MARC GONZALES

Director, Department of Finance, Clackamas County, Oregon GFOA Member | 28 years Committees Served

* Retirement and Benefits Administration (ex officio)

* Governmental Budgeting and Fiscal Policy

GFOA Board Member 201 1-2014 and 2014-2015

MARC GONZALES, president-elect, identified his goals for the upcoming three years: 1) engage with the association's constituency in new ways to create financial sustainability in all levels of government, including expanding GFOA offerings for smaller units of government; 2) create paths for a future generation of public finance officers, helping them aspire to careers in support of the public good; and 3) continue GFOA's critical and effective support for wise regulatory and legislative activity at both the federal and state levels.

As director of the Department of Finance for Clackamas County, Gonzales led the department in creating a performance budgeting and results measurement program. He's also part of the county's executive management team. Over his tenure with the organization, Clackamas County has received GFOA's certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting 20 times and the distinguished budget presentation award 19 times.

Gonzales is also a past president of the Oregon Government Finance Officers Association and a six-term citizen member of the Multnomah County (Oregon) Investment Advisory Board. He helped develop a pension reform legislative concept that was passed in 2003 and 2013 Oregon State legislative sessions and a pre-session legislative policy development on behalf of the county. Gonzales has also testified before the Oregon Public Employees' Retirement System Board and serves on a statewide taskforce on health-care reform affecting public and private purchasers of health-care coverage for their employees.

ROBERT BISHOP

Deputy City Manager, City of St, John's, Newfoundland

GFOA Member | 13 years

Committee Served

* Canadian Issues

ROBERT BISHOP is interested in maintaining the objectives GFOA has articulated so well over the past...