My point is that not everyone (in North America) has noticed the connection between the word "clerk" and the word "clerical", and so to say that the Town Clerk does pretty much anything, depending on the location, could mean that he/she might sweep floors, stack boxes, water the plants, stand guard at the entrance, place tickets on over-parked cars, respond to calls about burned-out streetlights, etc. I won't edit it myself, but maybe you could add a simple sentence like, "The town clerk generally does work of a clerical nature, such as record-keeping, filing, taking the minutes of the meetings, and so on." Another thing concerns pronunciation: in Britain, they pronounce "clerk" as "clark".