Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
Wakefield Town Councillor Jonathan Chines, chair of the MMA Fiscal Policy Committee, presents a resolution at the podium during the MMA Annual Business Meeting in Boston on Jan. 25.
Local leaders from across Massachusetts overwhelmingly approved four policy resolutions during the MMA’s Annual Business Meeting on Jan. 25 in Boston.
The resolution topics are PFAS remediation, modernization of local government, transportation needs, and the state-local fiscal partnership.
The MMA’s Annual Business Meeting was part of the Connect 351 conference held Jan. 23 through 25. Resolutions adopted by the membership at the meeting will help guide the advocacy work of the MMA in the year ahead.
The PFAS resolution identifies the harms that the “forever chemicals” pose for communities across Massachusetts, and establishes positions to address its contamination, fund remediation, and protect public health.
The local government modernization resolution articulates positions to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of local government services, including in the areas of local decision making, procurement, public meetings, infrastructure, and the municipal workforce.
The transportation resolution advocates for support of a multimodal transportation network and infrastructure in the Commonwealth.
The fiscal resolution seeks to ensure a strong partnership between cities and towns and the state in fiscal 2026. It identifies municipal needs in areas such as unrestricted aid; education and charter school finance; capital needs such as road maintenance; municipal and school facilities; water and wastewater systems; climate resilience; and local-option flexibility for local revenues.