Miss Hall's School Names Business Administrator

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PITTSFIELD, Mass.  — Miss Hall's School has named Aaron Gordon, of Lenox, as the School's new Director of Finance and Operations.
 
Gordon, who brings experience in nonprofit finance, higher education administration, strategic planning, student and residential life, and operations, most recently served as Director of Student Administrative Affairs, Strategy and Planning at Williams College.
 
In that role, he was the central administrative and budget officer for the college's Division of the Dean of the College, working closely with the Dean of the College on a variety of matters, including, but not limited to, budget creation, strategic planning, emergency response, and communications, overseeing annual budgets totaling $14 million.
 
At Miss Hall's, Gordon will work with senior administrators and the School's Board of Trustees to ensure fiscally responsible and mission-aligned decision-making. His role will include overseeing all financial and operating functions, including budgeting, financial reporting, monitoring investment accounts, and campus services. He will also serve on the School's Leadership Team, the senior administrative team that meets regularly to exchange information, set institutional goals and policy, advise the Head of School, and anticipate future needs and opportunities for the School's ongoing success.
 
"I am thrilled that Aaron will be bringing to MHS his experience, student-centered focus, and collaborative approach, while also providing visionary leadership for finance and operations and the entire school," said Miss Hall's Head of School Julia Heaton. "Aaron's strengths in nonprofit finance and educational administration, combined with his enthusiasm for working toward a shared mission and vision, make him an important and valued addition to the leadership team. We are excited to welcome Aaron to the MHS community."
 
A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, with a B.A. in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, Gordon also holds an M.B.A. from Clarkson University Graduate School. He joined Williams in 2005 as Assistant Director of Campus Life – Residential Programs, responsible for all aspects of student housing. In 2011, he was named
 
Director of Divisional Business Affairs, serving as the central administrative and budget officer for the Division of Campus life. In that position, he worked closely with the human resources, facilities, and food service departments, as well as other operational areas, while overseeing budgets totaling $36 million. ' Gordon served in that role until June 2020, when the division merged with the Division of the Dean of the College.
 
A member of the Eastern Association of College & University Business Officers and Rotary International, Gordon also previously served as a Board Member and Vice President of Finance with the Northern Berkshire United Way and Treasurer of the First Congregational Church of Williamstown. Gordon currently resides in Lenox with his wife and two children.

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BRPC Committee Mulls Input on State Housing Plan

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Regional Planning Commission's Regional Issues Committee brainstormed representation for the county in upcoming housing listening sessions.

"The administration is coming up with what they like to tout is their first housing plan that's been done for Massachusetts, and this is one of a number of various initiatives that they've done over the last several months," Executive Director Thomas Matuszko said.

"But it seems like they are intent upon doing something and taking comments from the different regions across the state and then turning that into policy so here is our chance to really speak up on that."

The Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities and members of the Housing Advisory Council will host multiple listening sessions around the Commonwealth to hear input on the Healey-Driscoll administration's five-year strategic statewide housing plan.

One will be held at Berkshire Community College on May 15 at 2 p.m.

One of Matuszko's biggest concerns is the overall age of the housing stock in Berkshire County.

"And that the various rehab programs that are out there are inadequate and they are too cumbersome to manipulate through," he explained.

"And so I think that there needs to be a greater emphasis not on new housing development only but housing retention and how we can do that in a meaningful way. It's going to be pretty important."

Non-commission member Andrew Groff, Williamstown's community developer director, added that the bureaucracies need to coordinate themselves and "stop creating well-intended policies like the new energy code that actually work against all of this other stuff."

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