MACC Annual Environmental Conference: Creative Approaches to Financing Your Commission and Update on Open Meeting and Conflict of Interest Laws
March 5, 2011
Kathleen E. Connolly will be presenting two workshops at the upcoming MACC (Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions) Annual Environmental Conference.
March 5, 2011
MACC Annual Environmental Conference
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, Massachusetts
Creative Appraoches to Financing Your Commission
9:45 to 11:00 a.m.
This workshop will focus on basic and creative ways to fund Conservation Commission operations and related activities. Topics include: how to use fees from wetland fund accounts, revolving accounts, and using "contributions" from developers. Attendees will also learn how the mass procurement act, MGL Chapter 30B, applies to them, such as in hiring consultants to review wetland permit applications. The legal background and citations for each law governing these techniques will be discussed.
Speakers: Kathleen E. Connolly, Esq., Counsel, Murtha Cullina LLP and MACC Officer
Kevin Paicos, Town Manager, Foxborough
George A. Hall Jr., Esq., Partner, Anderson & Kreiger, LLP
Update on the Open Meeting and Conflict of Interest Laws: How Well Are You Complying?
11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
(advanced credit)
Last year's program on this topic gave attendees advance notice of the new requirements, some of which were in effect by the time of MACC's Annual Conference and others which became effective July 1, 2010. Now that the law is in effect, new issues have arisen. More importently, new guidance from the Attorney General's Office Division of Open Government and State Ethics Commission have shed light on several of the old and new issues. This program will review the requirements under the Open Meeting Law and State Ethics Law and highlight the latest issues and the guidance available.
Speakers: Kathleen E. Connolly, Esq., Counsel, Murtha Cullina LLP and MACC Officer
James B. Lampke, Esq., Principal, Law Offices of Lampke & Lampke
Moderator: Kenneth Whittaker, Ph.D., Esq., Partner, Environmental Law, Yoss LLP and MACC Officer
