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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">MAPD is rebooting, so come join your fellow planning practitioners for learning opportunities and networking! $90 gets members free workshops, discounted conference rates (yes,
we would like to hold an in-person conference in 2024!), and legislative advocacy on land-use issues. Starting in 2024, we will be charging all non-MAPD members and those prior members who have not re-upped their dues for workshops—Zoom licenses cost money!
We have been laxed in collecting dues and worrying about who was or wasn’t a member, so in the words of Elsa from Frozen, we “let it go,” but we need to build up our membership numbers and you all can help. If you paid dues in 2023, you can send this email
out of your inbox and directly into the trash. Membership follows you as an individual, not your place of employment. Pro tip: use a personal email address as your contact, as folks move around quite a bit.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white">You do not have to be a Planning Director to be a member; the organization name is a bit out of date. All planning practitioners (and those support who planners—engineers,
attorneys, architects, landscape architects, etc.) from Commonwealth agencies, Regional Planning Agencies, private sector firms, and municipal governments are welcome to join.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The MAPD membership invoice and W-9 can be accessed by following this link: </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;background:white"><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QmT0CNm4IKutlOIC5ajITOTx8ZE_1ZqF?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QmT0CNm4IKutlOIC5ajITOTx8ZE_1ZqF?usp=sharing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Questions can be directed to
<a href="mailto:maplanningdirectors@gmail.com">maplanningdirectors@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Thanks, and I look forward to a terrific 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Kristina
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Handwriting"">Kristina Johnson</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"">,</span></b><b>
</b><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">AICP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Director of Planning and Community Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Town of Hudson, Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">978-562-2989<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><a href="mailto:kjohnson@townofhudson.org">kjohnson@townofhudson.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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