Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trial Committee - June Monthly Meeting - June 10

Meeting Tuesday night at Franklin.TV. We'd love to see you there

View this email in your browser June Monthly Meeting Hello!   Tuesday night we will have our monthly meeting at Franklin.TV, 23 Hutchinson Street, Franklin at 7pm.  We'd love to see you there! The minutes from our previous meeting can be found here on our web site. The agenda for this month's meeting is here.   Warm regards, Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee Copyright © 2025 Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee PO Box 68 Franklin, Ma 02038

Franklin Housing Authority meets in the newly renamed Peter L Brunelli Community Center May 13 (audio)

FM #1446 = This is the Franklin Matters radio show, number 1446 in the series. 

This session of the radio show shares the audio recording of the Franklin Housing Authority meeting held on Tuesday, March 13, 2025 in the Peter L Brunelli Community Center on Central Park Terrace. 

Participating were:

• GEORGE DANELLO, CHAIR 

• CHRIS FEELEY (a few minutes late to session)

• Jennifer Levine

• ANDREW M KEPPLE, STATE APPOINTEE

• CHRISTOPHER LENNON

• Lisa M. Audette, Housing Authority Agent

• Nayda DeJeus

Quick recap:

From the Director’s Report

• 23,000plus on waiting list; Franklin list up 33 folks in one month

• 2 vacancies, both in congregate, both will be housed possible within a few days, interviews and offers made

Discussion & vote on payment to employees leaving before September

• If they did not take health care coverage, they did get a payment of $1,000 (for a year, or prorated accordingly). HLC increased the allowable amount from $1,000 to $5,000/year. Board vote required to approve of payment, normally would be made in September but the employees involved wouldn’t not be on the active payroll at that time, hence the decision needed now. Vote to approve and set the amount for FY 2026 at the same time.

The recording of the meeting runs about 42 minutes.  Audio link -> https://franklin-ma-matters.captivate.fm/episode/fm-1446-franklin-housing-authority-mtg-05-13-25/

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Meeting agenda doc ->  

https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-1733 

My notes captured via Twitter during the meeting

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J-zt7qZj-7RApmgHnp-Y3uHp_AcbtIrS/view?usp=drive_link 

Housing Income Limits -> (by MA county) https://www.mhp.net/assets/resources/documents/one__income_limits.pdf

Franklin Housing Authority web page -> https://www.franklinma.gov/housing-authority 

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Franklin Housing Authority renamed the Community Center to honor the late Peter L Brunelli

Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee -> Monthly Meeting - May 13, 7 PM

Meeting Tuesday night at Franklin.TV. We'd love to see you there

View this email in your browser May Monthly Meeting Hello!   Tuesday night we will have our monthly meeting at Franklin.TV, 23 Hutchinson Street, Franklin at 7 PM.  We'd love to see you there! The minutes from our previous meeting can be found here on our web site. The agenda for this month's meeting is here.   Warm regards, Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee Copyright © 2025 Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Franklin & Bellingham Rail Trail Committee PO Box 68 Franklin, Ma 02038

Franklin Garden Club features "H is for Daylilies" - May 6

The Franklin Garden Club will offer a program on “H is for Daylilies” on Tuesday, May 6, at 7:00 PM at the Franklin Senior Center located at 10 Daniel McCahill Street. The program is open to the public at no charge.

"H is for Daylilies" - May 6

The program will be presented by Lifetime Master Gardener and Franklin Garden Club member Adele Turent. “H is for Daylilies” focuses on the origins of the modern daylily, the different bloom forms, its care, cultivation and breeding. Turent is a member of both the New England Daylily Society and the American Daylily Society (ADS). She is an ADS Garden Judge instructor. Garden judges are trained to evaluate daylilies in the garden, and their votes determine the daylilies that win national awards. Adele has taught Garden Judge Workshops at National and Regional ADS conventions in the U.S. as well as in Québec. 

 

From 2013 to 2018, Turent was the award-winning editor of Daylilies in the Great Northeast, an ADS regional publication. In 2019, she became the Executive Editor and Ad Sales Manager of The Daylily Journal, the American Daylily Society’s national, full color, quarterly magazine.

Franklin LGBTQ Alliance: Join us for our next meeting on May 1st at *6:00pm*!

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We will be meeting at Franklin TV

Franklin LGBTQ Alliance In this newsletter we include an invitation to our next meeting and community events, including our next book club discussion, and include more opportunities to get involved. You Are Invited To Our March Monthly Meeting!   When: May 1st at *6:00pm*   Where: Franklin TV at 23 Hutchinson St. in Franklin   What:  Talk about volunteer opportunities for Celebrate With Pride Have a move night! We'll be watching Dumplin' since our earlier movie night was cancelled due to weather DRUM ROLL PLEASE...We would like to announce new Alliance board members taking office September 1st, 2025! Our next President: Rion James   "My name is Rion I'm a non binary trans guy who uses he/they pronouns. I grew up in Franklin, I currently work at stop at shop doing online pickup and helping out in floral when needed. I love to watch tv, play video games, color, listen to music, and cuddle my dog in my free time.   One thing I want to do as president is reach out further into the community by letting surrounding towns know who we are and telling them about our different meetings and gatherings." Our next Vice President: Evelyn Rossing   "My name is Evelyn. I am a gay transgender woman and my pronouns are she/her. I have lived in Franklin for 21 years. I work in software development in a company in Boston. In my spare time I enjoy reading and playing games, both video and tabletop.   As vice-president, I am interested in expanding awareness of the FLA in the area LGBTQ community and strengthening the membership of the group." We want to thank Robin Baidya for his steadfast support as our President the past two years, including as Celebrate With Pride Chair and Book Club Coordinator. We are grateful he is staying on until August 31st to continue to impart wisdom as we bring up new leaders and plan for Celebrate With Pride. We look forward to Robin and his partner Lee continuing to be active members and seeking out their advice in the future.    Note: Jennifer Rossing will be staying on as Treasurer and Phoebe Thaler will be staying on as Secretary.   If you are not on our email list, sign up to receive future emails with this form.