TASK FORCE INFORMATION: Our Next Meeting will be held on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 7:30PM. Please be certain to send me any item you wish to have included on the Agenda before Noon on Wednesday, January 6th. The Minutes from the December 14, 2020 meeting are attached below, thanks to Bev Freeman. ABBREVIATIONS: From time to time I [...]
TASK FORCE INFORMATION:>> I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and are looking forward to the New Year. It’s time we began to get ready for the Biden Administration and hopefully a breath of fresh air with a return to normalcy at the department of Homeland Security. Don’t forget that our next meeting will be [...]
TASK FORCE INFORMATION:The next issue of From the Chair will be sent on January 8th, barring urgent time sensitive items. Our NEXT MEETING will be held via ZOOM on December 14, 2020 at 7:30PM. Please send me any item you wished to have added to the agenda as soon as possible. The ZOOM link, courtesy of Karen [...]
TASK FORCE INFORMATION: >>Our next meeting will be held on December 14, 2020 at 7:30PM. Please email any item you wish to have added to the agenda by noon on Wednesday, Dec 9. >>As most of you know, Cynthia Ganung is a member of The Needham Interfaith Clergy Association, as well as one of the stalwarts of the Task Force. During our October meeting [...]
TASK FORCE INFORMATION:I am sorry for the delay in sending this issue of From the Chair, but my email was down for the better part of last week.LITIGATION: >> On Nov 2, 2020 The Federal district court in Cook County, Illinois, et al v. Wolf et. al., (19-cv-6334), granted summary judgment in favor of Plaintiffs on their claim that the Department [...]
>>TIME SENSITIVE: The Task Force has received an invitation from the Town Manager to send two members to participate in a three session workshop (via Zoom) “Countering Hate & Fostering Inclusion in Needham”. If you would like to represent the Task Force, please let me know as soon as possible. I must submit our names by October 30th. PLEASE ACCESS THE FOLLOWING [...]
TASK FORCE MATTERS: Our next meeting will be held on October 12th at 7:00pm. An invitation will be sent with the zoom information shortly. GOVERNMENT REPORTS:>> Roll Call reports that a report issued by the DHS Office of the Inspector General is casting doubt on DHS's ability to protect its massive repository of personal data from hackers amid a push by the Trump administration to vastly expand its collection of [...]
TASK FORCE MATTERS:Our next meeting will be held on October 12 at 7:00PM. Please email me any item you wish included in the agenda.Thanks to Will for designing the new letter head for From the Chair.Bill has prepared a list of legislation in the MA Legislature that we should be tracking. See the attached. GOVERNMENT [...]
TASK FORCE NEWS: The minutes from the September meeting are attached. Please send me any corrections.LEGISLATION:>>. The Work and Family Mobility Bill (driver’s licenses for undocumented) is languishing in the MA Senate Ways and Means Committee after receiving a favorable vote in the Transportation Committee on April 21, 2020. Thanks to Bill [...]
TASK FORCE MATTERS Don’t forget - our next meeting will be held Monday, Sept 14 via zoom, at 7:00PM. Please email me with any agenda item you wish to have included in the meeting notice no later than noon on WEDNESDAY, September 9.If you have a suggestion for a GUEST SPEAKER, please contact me as soon as [...]