<div dir="ltr">We've recently held two community meetings for our Main Street re-design project in the past 6 months and I coordinated with the High School. They provided in both cases several Honor Society students who came to provide the childcare service. We also offered rides to and from the event via our Senior Center shuttle bus. We included this information on all our outreach efforts.<div><br></div><div>The first meeting had about 100 people who attended in person (about 25 online) and the second meeting was about 30 people in person. Unfortunately, we had no kids utilize the service and no one requested a ride.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">
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</div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:47 AM Anne Capra via MassPlanners <<a href="mailto:massplanners@masscptc.org">massplanners@masscptc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear Planners,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Wondering if any of you municipal planners have been able to offer childcare at a community meeting that was hosted by the municipality? Typically we have only been able to do this if partnered with a group that offers something like that already such as a neighborhood organization. Wondering about liability issues etc. if the municipality is the meeting host and how we could provide someone to watch the children of attendees for two hours. Childcare is often cited as a strategy for broadening participation in community events but I haven't seen any municipalities offer this due to these complicating factors.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Anne</div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Anne Capra, AICP</span><br></div><div><font color="#0b5394" face="georgia, serif">Director, Planning & Conservation</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394">Town of South Hadley </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394">116 Main Street | South Hadley, MA 01075</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394">(413) 538-5017 x6128</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394"><a href="mailto:acapra@southhadleyma.gov" target="_blank">acapra@southhadleyma.gov</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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