MMA Best Practices

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MMA Municipal Best Practices Series

January 15, 2016

Over the course of 2015, the MMA’s five policy committees particpated in a project to identify and describe a number of “best practices” aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness oflocal government in Massachusetts. The result is the first volume of the MMA’s Best Practices series, available below.Note: These files are all in PDF format.MMA Fiscal Policy Committee• Best Practice Recommendation: Municipal Reserves• Best Practice Recommendation: Capital Planning• Best Practice Recommendation: Budgeting for Snow and Ice RemovalMMA Policy Committee on Personnel and Labor Relations• Best Practice Recommendation: Managing Other Post-Employment Benefit (OPEB) Liabilities• Best Practice Recommendation: Adequate Preparation for Collective Bargaining Cases Referred to the Joint Labor-Management Committee• Best Practice Recommendation: Managing Unemployment Insurance Claims and CostsMMA Policy Committee on Public Works, Transportation and Public Utilities• Best Practice Recommendation: Pavement Management System Planning• Best Practice Recommendation: Protecting Municipal Vehicles from Storm Treatment Corrosives• Best Practice Recommendation: Participation in the National Joint Utilities Notification System (NJUNS)MMA Policy Committee on Municipal and Regional Administration

• Best Practice Recommendation: Economic Development Strategies

• Best Practice Recommendation: Sharing Municipal Services

MMA Policy Committee on Energy and the Environment

• Best Practice Recommendation: Integrated Water Resources Management Plans

• Best Practice Recommendation: Solid Waste Management Master Plan

• Best Practice Recommendation: Join a Stormwater Management Coalition

• Download full Best Practices report (312K PDF)