President, secretary, treasurer: who does what on a Florida board.

By Carlos Castellano · Current as of July 6, 2026

Who does what on a community association board? Less of it is set by statute than people expect. Florida’s laws care intensely about whether directors are educated and whether records are kept, but the day-to-day division of officer duties mostly comes from your association’s own bylaws. Here is the honest map: what each role typically does, and which duties actually come from the law.

President

In most associations the president presides over board and member meetings, signs contracts the board has approved, and acts as the association’s spokesperson. What the president is not, unless the bylaws say so, is a decision-maker on their own. Authority belongs to the board acting as a body; the president executes what the board decides. Check your bylaws for exactly what the president may sign and when.

Vice president

The vice president’s defined job is usually one line: act when the president cannot. Beyond that, boards typically assign the VP whatever standing area needs an owner, such as a committee liaison role. If your bylaws give the VP nothing specific, that is normal.

Secretary

The secretary is the record keeper, and this is the officer role where state law adds real, named duties: retaining every director’s educational certificate in the official records, and, for condos, receiving each director’s written certification by statute. It has become the compliance-critical seat on the board, which is why we wrote it up separately in the board secretary’s job, explained.

Treasurer

The treasurer watches the money: the budget, the bank accounts, the financial reports the association owes its members. In practice much of the bookkeeping may sit with a management company, but oversight cannot be delegated away. The treasurer is the director whose job is to understand the association’s finances well enough to explain them, which is exactly why financial literacy and transparency is one of the four topics the state requires in director education.

Directors without a title

A director with no officer title has the same vote, the same fiduciary duty, and the same education requirement as every officer. There is no junior tier of board membership.

What every seat owes, regardless of title

Two obligations attach to the seat itself. First, fiduciary duty: every director must act in the association’s interest, not their own. Condo directors expressly certify in writing that they will faithfully discharge that duty. Second, education: certification requirements attach to being a director, not to holding an office. The president, the treasurer, and the untitled director all sit on the same clock, which is explained in your 90-day certification clock, explained.