Photos: Women Make History on Guilderland Town Board
The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair
Amanda Beedle, right, reads aloud her oath of office as a new member of the Guilderland Planning Board after the town’s reorganizational meeting Jan. 7, while new Town Clerk Lynne Buchanan and Supervisor Peter Barber look on. Beedle is filling out the term of Mickey Cleary, which runs through the end of 2021; Cleary was elected to the county legislature in November. Beedle worked for the town for many years, as deputy receiver of taxes, deputy town clerk, registrar, and marriage officer, and now works for Capital Region BOCES as an administrative aid. Planning board member Thomas Robert’s term expired this year and he was re-appointed.
The Enterprise — Elizabeth Floyd Mair
Councilwoman Laurel Bohl, right, looks at a document with town Justice Denise Randall before the town’s reorganizational meeting on Jan. 7. Bohl asked Randall, Guilderland’s first female judge, to perform her swearing-in, she told The Enterprise, to mark the fact that Bohl’s entry makes the board majority-female. It is the first time that the town board has had more women than men, according to former town historian Alice Begley. Bohl joins board members Rosemary Centi, Patricia Slavick, Paul Pastore, and Supervisor Peter Barber. The board also became all-Democratic when Centi and Bohl got the most votes in a three-way race for two seats in November, ousting Republican Lee Carman.