5/15/12 - Maine Municipal Association is please to announce the Proposed Slate for MMA Vice President and Executive Committee Members.

5/10/12 – The International Municipal Lawyers Association is sponsoring a “New England Regional Land Use Seminar” on June 21-22 in Portsmouth, N.H. The seminar will examine issues such as Sustainable Development and Development Approvals and Conditions. Municipal lawyers in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut are co-sponsoring the seminar, as are the New England Chapters of the Planners Association. For more information > > >

5/3/12 - Election Process Begins for Legislative Policy Committee Representatives. The process of selecting 70 elected or appointed municipal officials from across the state to the Maine Municipal Association’s Legislative Policy Committee for the 2012-2014 biennium has begun.

The municipal manager or first selectman in each member municipality has just received the materials necessary to advance a nominee from your community to serve on this vitally important Policy Committee.  For a copy of the memo, nomination form or nominee biography form,  please click the following links > > >

If you need additional information, please contact Laura Veilleux at lveilleux@memun.org or by calling 1-800-452-8786, ext. 2207.

4/30/12 - MMA's workshop, "Elected Officials Toolkit for Jail Reentry," has been renamed "When Inmates Come Home: How to Aid Assimilation into the Community."

4/30/12 – Maine Municipal Association’s Executive Committee approved a “Communication and Social Media Policy and Guidelines” for use here MMA. We encourage members to read it, modify it and use it – in part or in total – when implementing their own policies and guidelines. To see the Policy, log into the Members Area here > > >

4/26/12 -The 2012 Maine Arboviral (Mosquito-borne) Illness Surveillance, Prevention and Response Plan has been released.  This plan provides guidance to communities on operational aspects of Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) virus and West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance, prevention and response. Go to the Plan > > > 

4/19/12 – The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention will hold the Maine Active Community Conference on May 31 in Portland. The program agenda offers many items that could be of interest to municipal officials and staff. To find out more > > >

4/10/12 - National Incident Management System Compliance Assistance Support Tool (NIMSCAST) released. Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5 requires that all Federal departments and agencies make adoption of NIMS by local, State, Territorial, and Tribal organizations a condition to receive Federal Preparedness Grant Awards. Implementation progress data, as reported through NIMSCAST, is taken into consideration when allocating grant funds. For more information > > >

4/3/12 – The State Treasurer has released FY 2013 Revenue Sharing projections for Maine cities and towns. Statewide, the revenue-sharing figure will total $93.8 million during FY 2013, or $44 million less than what state statutes say the total funding should be. Go here to see the spreadsheet listing municipality by municipality figures > > >

4/3/12 - Did you know that regularly scheduled live webinars for Municipal Officials are available through MMA’s eLearning Center? For Information & Registration > > >

3/29/12 – The State of Maine’s Division of Purchases encourages municipalities to participate in its commodities purchasing program, which can save towns and cities money on everything from road salt to sign language interpreters. To see a complete list of vendors participating in the program > > >