Erie Canal Museum elects board officers

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Erie Canal Museum announced that its board of trustees elected officers for 2015 during its annual meeting on Jan. 28.

Community leader Rick Cordaro, of Manlius, was elected president of the board. The vice president is Jodee A. LaCelle, an official with M&T Bank. The board’s treasurer is Michael P. Goetz, CPA, manager at Firley, Moran, Freer and Eassa, CPA, P.C. 

Paul J. Curtin, Jr., managing partner at Cazenovia law firm Curtin & DeJoseph, P.C., is the board secretary. The chair of the board is Oswego resident Susan Hughes, archive manager at CXtec, according to a news release from the museum.

The board of trustees is responsible for financial oversight, overall planning, resource development, and participation in and periodic review of the mission of the Erie Canal Museum, the release stated.

The museum is a nonprofit educational organization established in 1962 and located at 318 Erie Boulevard E. in Syracuse. Its mission is to preserve the only existing weighlock building in the U.S.

The Erie Canal Museum collects and conserves Erie Canal material, champions an appreciation and understanding of canal history through educational programming, and promotes an awareness of the canal’s transforming effects on the past, present, and future, according to the release.

The Erie Canal Museum is partially funded by the New York State Council on the Arts.