Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
The MMA’s annual Kenneth Pickard Innovation Awards were presented during the MMA’s Annual Meeting on Jan. 23 to the towns of Bedford and Dedham and the city of Medford.
This year’s awards went to a new approach to educating parents, a wide-ranging partnership to help people in danger of losing their homes, and a long-running program to limit greenhouse gas emissions and reduce energy costs.
The innovation award recognizes municipalities that have developed unique and creative projects and programs to increase the effectiveness of local government. Innovations should address a problem common to municipalities in Massachusetts in a new and different way. Innovative programs can be instituted in any area of local government.
The award judges were Andre Martecchini, a principal engineer at SEA Consultants and a former selectman in Duxbury, and Bob Ritchie, the former director of the Municipal Law Unit in the Attorney General’s Office.
The award is named in honor of Kenneth Pickard, the executive secretary of the Massachusetts League of Cities and Towns from 1969 to 1973.
The 2010 winners are:
• Coordination boosts parent-education series