Makalia S. Records has submitted her resignation as executive director of the Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce. Her last day working full-time for the chamber will be Nov. 20.

“I look forward to spending more time with my family and focusing that time on the growth of our sons,” Records wrote in an Oct. 22 letter of resignation to chamber president Juan Carrillo.

However, Records said she will help the new director during the transition and serve as a paid consultant for the Gloucester Wine Festival, which has proved to be a successful chamber fundraiser.

Carrillo said the organization’s board of directors expects to hire a new full-time executive director by late December.

“It has been very exciting to lead the chamber over the last five years,” Records said. “I am very proud of all the great things we have collectively accomplished.”

Carrillo said that chamber membership has risen by more than 25 percent since Records was hired, and now boasts over 200 members.

“We have gone a long way,” he said of chamber growth in recent years.

Despite the chamber’s growth, he said he is concerned about the overall business community. Although many businesses seem to be rebounding from the poor economic conditions of the past few years, he said, some still have not fully recovered.

Looking to 2015, Carrillo said the chamber will continue its membership recruitment efforts, plans to hold more after hour socials and networking opportunities, and stage the Gloucester Wine Festival as a fundraiser and as a way to promote the vitality of this community. The chamber will hold its annual dinner in early February.

Records resides in Gloucester with her husband Charles, a principal in Zandler Development, and sons Chandler, 13, and Carter, 9.

For more information about the chamber, call 693-2425.