Friday, July 29, 2022

From the heat to the proposed 'friendly 40b' process, to the 5 year fiscal outlook, we cover these and more in this Talk Franklin episode - 07/26/22

FM #832 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 832 in the series. 


This session of the radio show shares my "Talk Franklin" conversation with Town Administrator Jamie Hellen and Marketing & Communications Specialist Lily Rivera. We had our conversation at the Municipal Building in Jamie’s office. 


Topics for this session

  • This heat wave broke, the drought is continuing 

  • Weekly Farmers Market, Concert on the Common, food trucks, movie nights

  • Hydrant painting contest by DPW, applications due Aug 12, winner announcement in October

  • Friendly 40b

  • EDC to do their ‘short list’ for the MAPC recommendations at Aug 10 meeting

  • Green community presentation at August Town Council meeting

  • 5 year fiscal outlook (not published yet but highlights covered)

  • Old South Meeting House

  • Davis Thayer deed processing underway, discussion in Fall on how best to use it


The conversation runs about 45 minutes. Let’s listen to my conversation with Jamie and Lily. Audio file -> https://anchor.fm/letstalkfranklin/episodes/The-End-of-the-Heat-Wave--Hydrant-Painting--and-the-New-Friendly-40b-Process-e1lrjsg/a-a8ak6mi



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Hydrant painting contest  https://www.franklinma.gov/public-works/news/hydrant-painting-starts-today


40b collection

https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/07/what-is-40b-why-is-town-of-franklin.html


Beaver St collection

https://www.franklinmatters.org/2022/07/what-is-beaver-st-interceptor-why-does.html


Franklin for All webpage 

https://www.mapc.org/resource-library/franklin-for-all/


Green Community story map https://www.franklinma.gov/administrator/pages/green-community 


Town budget page  https://www.franklinma.gov/town-budget 


Community & Cultural District calendar https://www.franklinmatters.org/p/blog-page.html 



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From the heat to the proposed 'friendly 40b' process, to the 5 year fiscal outlook, we cover these and more in this Talk Franklin episode - 07/26/22
From the heat to the proposed 'friendly 40b' process, to the 5 year fiscal outlook, we cover these and more in this Talk Franklin episode - 07/26/22

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