3/3/14 – MMA Federal Issues Paper Released

Each year, Maine Municipal Association publishes a Federal Issues Paper that sheds light on the role the federal government has in supporting municipal government and in issuing requirements and passing laws that can impact cities and towns in other ways.
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02/26/14 – MMA Says ‘Thanks’ As Revenue Sharing Bill Becomes Law

MMA Executive Director Christopher Lockwood today expressed appreciation to members who pushed for the bill and to state legislators who sponsored and supported it, as $40 million in revenue-sharing funds were preserved statewide for FY 2015.
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Maine Municipal Association Fights for Revenue Sharing

Starting Sunday, MMA will launch a statewide information campaign informing citizens how the state Legislature’s ongoing raids of Maine’s Municipal Revenue Sharing program, despite a 1972 law that created it, is forcing property-tax increases and cuts to relied-upon municipal services such as snow plowing, road maintenance and emergency response.

The campaign will include television messages, digital messages and an extensive social media rollout. If you care about this issue, we ask you to contact your legislators now – time is of the essence – and tell them to balance the state’s $6.3 billion budget some other way than by forcing local property tax increases. Here’s a link to our new campaign website…