MSA webinar

Housing and Economic Development Secretary Mike Kennealy will be the featured speaker at a Massachusetts Select Board Association webinar on Nov. 16 focused on funding sources for affordable housing initiatives. Kennealy will discuss municipal affordable housing initiatives, with a focus on the funding sources that are available to support local projects. There will be time […]

MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show

Online pre-registration for the 2023 MMA Annual Meeting is now open! Largest annual gathering of local officials in Massachusetts, featuring workshops, a Trade Show, seminars, business meetings, guest speakers, receptions, award presentations and other activities. For more information please visit the Annual Meeting section of our website. The post MMA Annual Meeting and Trade Show appeared first […]

Management Association holiday meeting

The MMA is currently requiring attendees to show proof of being fully vaccinated for COVID (card, photo or QR code). Exemptions are allowed with a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours. Masks are optional. These safety protocols are subject to change based on the latest public health data and guidance. The post Management Association […]

Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources holiday meeting

Massachusetts Municipal Human Resources will hold its annual holiday meeting on Thursday, Dec. 8, in Salem. During the meeting, KP Law managing attorney Lauren Goldberg will provide “First Amendment audit” training. In recent years, municipalities across the country have been increasingly subjected to First Amendment audits, where self-described “auditors” record interactions with public officials in […]

ATFC Annual Meeting

All local finance committee members are invited to the Association of Town Finance Committees’s Annual Meeting on Nov. 5 at the Sharon Community Center. Needham Town Manager Kate Fitzpatrick will open the meeting with a presentation on resiliency, sharing insights on her own resiliency journey spanning 25 years in local government. Her crowd-sourced poem, “We […]