Organizational Chart

Governance Structure:

MMA Executive Committee – The Executive Committee is created by the MMA Bylaws and serves as the governing body of the Maine Municipal Association. The Committee is composed of 12 elected or appointed municipal officials including a President, Immediate Past President, Vice President and nine Executive Committee members (three three-year staggering terms). Executive Committee members are elected by the membership at the MMA Annual Business meeting. Officers serve one-year terms in their respective positions.

MMA Advisory Committee - The Advisory Committee was created by the MMA By-laws and served to advise the Executive Committee on matters of general policy confronting the Executive Committee or the Association upon which its counsel may be desired. The Committee was chaired by the immediate MMA Past President and was made up of ten municipal officials holding either elected or appointed positions in member municipalities, five of whom shall be elected at each annual convention for a term of two years; four public members appointed by the Executive Committee in November of each year, and the current President of each MMA Affiliate Group and county or area-wide municipal officers' associations. The activities of the Advisory Committee were guided by action of the Executive Committee. The MMA Advisory Committee was abolished in October 2001 by a vote of the full membership after a thorough review of its purpose and function by an Ad Hoc Committee on Governance and the MMA Executive Committee.

MMA Nominating Committee - The Nominating Committee is created by the MMA Bylaws as part of the annual election process. Its members are appointed annually by the Executive Committee and is composed of two Past Presidents, two elected municipal officials and the president of an affiliate member association. The Nominating Committee’s sole purpose is to select a proposed slate of officers for service on the Executive Committee and the Advisory Committee to be presented to the membership for election at the MMA Annual Business Meeting.  The Executive Committee may guide the actions and criteria by which the Nominating Committee acts by adoption of recommended guidelines and procedures; however, any formal change to structure or purpose would require an amendment to the MMA Bylaws.

Legislative Policy Committee - The Legislative Policy Committee (LPC) was established in the 1970’s by action of the Executive Committee. It was created by the Executive Committee as a committee which would broadly represent municipal interests on a statewide basis in the development of the Association’s positions on State legislation issues. The LPC is made up of two representatives elected from each of the State’s senatorial districts by the municipal officials within each district.  Its primary purpose is to define and direct the priority municipal interests within the Association’s legislative policy process and to establish positions and provide effective participation within the State legislative arena.

MMA Workers Compensation Fund Board of Trustees- In 1978, the Association created a self-funded Workers’ Compensation program.  State law both then, and now, requires that any fund established by employers for the purpose of meeting their obligations to provide Workers’ Compensation benefits be established and operated as a trust. The Indemnity Agreement and Declaration of Trust which together form a contract both among the members of the Fund and between the members and the Board of Trustees established and govern the Fund and named the Maine Municipal Association as the Trustee.  As the declared Trustees of the Workers’ Compensation Fund, the Executive Committee is empowered to exercise all powers and authorities necessary to manage and administer this Trust in accordance with the Indemnity Agreement, such as entering into contracts, incurring liabilities, holding and disposing of property, collecting contributions and assessments, investing proceeds, purchasing insurance and services, and adopting rules not inconsistent with the Fund Indemnity Agreement.

MMA Property & Casualty Pool Board of Directors – In 1987, the Association established a public self-funded property and casualty risk pool. Because of certain statutory requirements, the Executive Committee alone could not be named as the governing authority for the Risk Pool. State law requires that a majority of the members of a board of directors of a public pool be officials from participating pool members and, further, that there must be two public members who are not currently serving as elected or appointed officials.  Thus, under the contract establishing the Pool, the Board of Directors is composed of the Executive Committee of the Maine Municipal Association as the nucleus of the board, as many additional municipal officials as are necessary to ensure that a majority of the Board members are representing currently participating members, and two public members appointed by the Board.  The powers and duties of the Board are prescribed by the Pool Contract Agreement and entail all the normal corporate and legal authorities necessaryto manage and administer the Pool, similar to those exercised by the Workers’ Compensation Board of Trustees. 

MMA Strategic & Finance Committee –This committee was originally established in 1997 by action of the Executive Committee and is composed of  five-members of the Executive Committee appointed annually by the President of the Association.  The major responsibilities of the Strategic & Finance Committee include reviewing and developing a recommended annual Association budget, including development of a capital expenditure budget, funding policies and staffing requirements and reviewing various proposed elements of the Association’s business plan, identifying strategic initiatives and developing recommendations consistent with the Association’s budget and fiscal policies.  The responsibilities and structure of the Strategic & Finance Committee may be changed unilaterally by action of the Executive Committee.