Maine
MAP AWARDS NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS
2025 MAP Awards Criteria
Every year, planners and their work are acknowledged through the Maine Association of Planners (MAP) awards program. The program is designed to recognize a special person, organization, or project for its contribution to the field of planning. Award categories are Citizen Planner, Professional Planner, Project or Program of the Year, and Plan of the Year.
The Awards Committee is actively seeking nominations for this year which will be awarded at the MAP Annual Meeting in the spring. If you wish to nominate a person, organization, plan or project, please review the following CRITERIA and submit the NOMINATION FORM to Matthew Williams (mdwilli313@gmail.com).
Please submit a copy of your nomination form and any attachments by APRIL 4TH.
MAP MEMBERSHIP MEETING - February 21 Notice of Special Membership Meeting
The Maine Association of Planners (MAP) Board is calling for a Special Membership Meeting, to be held on Friday, February 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM via Zoom. The purpose of this meeting is a request for MAP membership to approve an additional $1000 of MAP funds for technical assistance in support of MAP's current work on proposed legislation amending Growth Management Law. These funds would be drawn from the MAP reserve account, and would be used towards our ongoing second phase of contract consultant assistance to the MAP Growth Management Law Review Committee during the current legislative session. This additional spending is supported by the Committee, MAP Board and Legislative Policy Committee, but requires a membership vote.
There will also be an opportunity for MAP members to get updates and discuss the current status of the Growth Management bill supported by MAP.
MAP members watch for an email next week with the Zoom meeting details and meeting agenda.
Reach out to Amanda Bunker, MAP President, with any questions at mappresident@nnecapa.org
Thank you,
Maine Association of Planners Board
MAP Spring Conference Presentations In case you missed last spring's conference, the presentation links are below.
If you'd like to view the presentation slides, click on the links below:
How to join...... MAP Listserv
The MAP Listserv is a great resource for tapping the knowledge of fellow planners and sharing information about relevant planning news, events, and opportunities.
MAP uses Google Groups for it's Listserv. If you'd like to join the Listserv, here are the instructions to participate in MAP's GOOGLE GROUP:
To Join the Google Group:
1. Visit https://groups.google.com/g/maine-association-planners. You may want to bookmark this URL as you can return here to view and search archived messages once you are a member.
2. Click “Ask to join group”
3. When you request to join, you will be given the option to select email preferences from the following options:
a. No Email: You won't receive messages to the group in your Inbox. You can visit the group's discussion archive to read messages.
b. Abridged Email: Once a day, you'll get a summary of new messages.
c. Digest Email: Once a day, you'll get full email messages bundled into a single message.
d. All Email: You'll receive each message sent to the group separately.
4. You can link to your Google profile, if you have one.
To post to the listserv:
1. Email maine-association-planners@googlegroups.com.
a. Please add this address to your address books and safe sender lists
2. Only members of the group can post messages. Spammers will be removed.
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