Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Your municipal governing body is invited to pick a local person, project or group to receive the 2025 Spirit of America Foundation Tribute for outstanding community service and to honor the recipient at your annual town meeting or during National Volunteer Month (April). There is no fee involved, and every year over 150 Maine municipalities choose a Spirit of America award winner. For more info, visit https://spiritofamerica.website and the ‘Contact Us’ page on...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
The Maine Council on Aging (MCOA) is hosting a virtual listening session with people and organizations who work with older adults to gather ideas and data around the challenges older Mainers face in the process of accessing behavioral and mental health services. On March 7 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., MCOA is inviting first responders to share their experiences. To register for the event, please click here. For more information about the program, please contact MCOA Policy...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The Maine Municipal Association's Education & Training Advisory Council is seeking individuals who are interesting in shaping the municipal training and professional development programs and sessions offered by the association. All municipal elected officials, appointed officials, and employees from MMA member municipalities to invited to nominate themselves for a two-year term beginning on July 1, 2025.
For more information about this exciting opportunity, please click here.
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
The 2025 Maine Municipal Association Directory is underway and will go to print soon. Municipal Members will receive one complimentary copy. Additional copies can be purchased through the MMA Central Services Department. MMA Member rate is $26, the non-member rate is $100. Please contact MMA’s Central Services Team for more information: [email protected]
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Journey Magazine has developed a FREE Recovery Basics: Foundational Information for Everyone course designed to provide interested individuals, including municipal leaders, with basic knowledge about addiction, and related recovery information, programs, and resources. The 45-minute self-guided course is being supported by the Alfond Center for the Advancement of Maine’s Workforce and offered at no cost to participants. For more information about the course, please click...
Monday, January 13, 2025
The State Treasurer has established 7.5% as the maximum interest rate that municipalities may charge for delinquent property taxes committed during calendar year 2025. Note that interest does not actually accrue on unpaid taxes unless a municipality’s legislative body (town meeting or town/city council) establishes the rate of interest and the date or dates after which interest will accrue. This must be done annually at a meeting at which the municipal legislative body votes to raise a...
Monday, January 13, 2025
Host site requests for summer 2025 interns are now open until March 1, 2025 for the Maine Government Summer Internship Program!
MMA and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center will host a free informational meeting for potential municipal intern hosts via Zoom on Wednesday, January 22 at 12-1 pm. Please visit this link to register.
MMA will also again be offering four $4,300 grants to MMA member municipalities who host an intern through the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Government...
Friday, January 10, 2025
In collaboration with MMA Legal Services and MMA Human Resources, the Maine Department of Labor recently published a new Maine Paid Family & Medical Leave Act Frequently Ask Questions document focused on addressing the issues being raised by town and city leaders. The answers to your pressing questions can be reviewed here.
MDOL has also established a PFML Hotline for Employers, Self-Employed Individuals and Tribal Governments. You can contact PFML staff with questions about...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
The National Leagues of Cities is inviting municipal officials to take advantage of its Local Infrastructure Hub bootcamp program, which is designed to provide leaders from small and mid-sized communities with the tools necessary to access federal infrastructure funding. Since implementing the program in 2022, they've provided technical assistance enabling communities to secure $300 million in federal grant funding.
In other words, the program works, and MMA encourages...
Monday, January 6, 2025
On January 22, 2025 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the Maine Human Rights Commission (MHRC) will host a free one-day summit, open to the public, focused on the commission and what it does, as well share information on expected developments relevant to Maine’s human rights laws. Session topics will include discrimination in public accommodations, updates on Maine’s human rights law, and a routable discussion with representatives from MHRC and other organizations, such as...