Board Member – Charleston
Peter and his wife Ann Hunsicker have been living on Echo Lake in Charleston since 2013, spending 7 months each year on the lake and then migrating south to Sarasota, Florida.
Peter & Ann’s first experience with NWSC occurred shortly after they bought our house when Conservation Science Director Meg Carter and a crew came over to plant and reclaim their shoreline, enabling it to be designated for a Lake Wise Award. Peter and Ann joined the Echo Lake Protective Association and Peter inherited management of the Charleston Elementary school program — giving him his first encounter with Andy Cappello and the NW education programs, and another impression of the good work and positive seeds sown by NorthWoods in the community.
Peter has been in public service all of his professional life, engaged with the governance of not for profit boards and the agencies they represent. His work history lends itself to finance and management. He enjoy building budgets, seeing how the disparate pieces interact and form a whole, then watching that paper exercise be implemented over the
course of the year. Peter retired from his role as a Financial Analyst with the Vermont Department of Health, where he reviewed the agencies applying for grants through the department, evaluating their fiscal health. Reviewing Audits, studying cash flow statements, preparing budgets for new program initiatives and making recommendations to the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Drug and Alcohol programs were his principal responsibilities.
Prior to his work with the State, Peter was the Business Manager for a six-town K-12 school district with 9 individual schools. Evaluating the operational needs of the district, preparing budgets and providing them to the 6 separate towns for board and voter approval were some of a long list of his jobs which were required to keep the kids safe, the lights on, the teachers paid and the buses running. Prior to that Peter was the Operations Manager for the United Way of Chittenden County for several years, moving into that position from his role as Executive Director of Spectrum Youth Services in Burlington.