Membership
You are probably the only person in your building who does this job.
In most Clearwater municipalities the clerk is the entire records department. CAMRO is the rest of the department: 344 members across 188 of Clearwater’s 214 municipalities.
What membership is for
Someone to ask
The members’ listserv answers most questions within the hour, usually from someone who handled the same thing two towns over last spring. This is the benefit members name first, every year, in the survey.
The credential
The CCRO is the professional standard for records officers in Clearwater, and increasingly what a hiring committee expects to see. Members pay member rates for every course that counts toward it.
Templates you can use tonight
Model response letters, a disposition log, an agenda template that satisfies Chapter 38, and a records request policy your council can adopt without amendment.
A voice at the Capitol
When a bill changes what clerks must retain, CAMRO is in the committee room explaining what it costs a town with one full-time employee.
Classes and dues
Active — $95/year. A municipal clerk, deputy clerk or appointed records officer of a Clearwater municipality. Full voting rights.
Associate — $60/year. County recorders, school district and special district records staff, and state agency records officers. No vote.
Municipal — $310/year. Up to four seats for one municipality, and the cheaper option the moment you have a deputy. Held by the municipality, so it survives a change of clerk.
Retired — $40/year. For former active members. Keeps the listserv and the conference rate.
Student — free. Enrolled in a public administration or records management program.
Dues run on the calendar year and are not prorated. Vendors and consultants may not join in any class; they participate as conference sponsors.
Already a member?
Renew, update your listing, register for the conference and check your education point balance in the member area.
Not sure which class fits?
Call the office on (555) 555-0100 or email membership@association-demo.com. If your municipality has two or more people doing records work, ask about the municipal rate first.
Elsewhere on the site
Three things members ask for that are filed under the part of the site they belong to, not under membership.
Clerk vacancies
Open clerk, deputy clerk and records officer posts in Clearwater municipalities. Posted by the hiring municipality, listed for 60 days.
Scholarships
Institute tuition and conference costs for members whose municipality will not pay them. Filed with the rest of certification, under For clerks.
What clerks are paid
The salary survey, by district and municipality size. Published because a clerk negotiating alone against a council that has no comparator is negotiating badly.