Betsy Shure Gross, Brookline, Clerk- Betsy Shure Gross is a lifelong conservationist. She is the former Executive Director of the Office of Public Private Partnerships at the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Prior to creating the OPPP, she served as the Special Assistant for Community Preservation under former Secretary Bob Durand. She is a public private partnership development expert with thirty years of experience creating partnerships for environmental protection, historic landscape preservation and community preservation at the local, state and national level.