{"id":9909,"date":"2021-07-20T10:07:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=9909"},"modified":"2021-07-20T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T15:07:18","slug":"get-involved-in-framingham-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2021\/07\/20\/politics\/get-involved-in-framingham-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Involved in Framingham Government!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/city-of-framingham-seal.png\" alt=\"City of Framingham seal\" class=\"wp-image-9910\" width=\"218\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/city-of-framingham-seal.png 462w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/city-of-framingham-seal-300x299.png 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/city-of-framingham-seal-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><figcaption>Get involved!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- Opportunities are available for Framingham residents to get involved with municipal government.  Seats are available on several Boards, Commissions, and Committees.  Help set the direction Framingham takes on determining needed changes to bylaws, ordinances and other legislation to meet municial goals and objectives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By serving, residents provide community insight to the executive and legislative branches of Framingham's government.  When you serve, you learn how government works, in real time.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Help solve the problems of tomorrow today, and become the next generation of leaders of Framingham!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following Boards, Commissions, and Committees have opportunities to serve:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2030 Council<\/li><li>Agricultural Advisory Committee<\/li><li>Cable Advisory Committee<\/li><li>Community Development Committee<\/li><li>Conservation Commission<\/li><li>Cultural Council<\/li><li>Elderly &amp; Disabled Tax Fund Committee<\/li><li>Fair Housing Committee<\/li><li>Framingham Housing Authority (Organized labor seat)<\/li><li>Human Relations Committee<\/li><li>Loring Arena Advisory Committee<\/li><li>Ordinance Review and Recodification Committee<\/li><li>Planning Board<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>No prior experience is required to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New voices are welcome and training is available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications for open positions will be accepted through August 6, 2021, <em>(or until positions are filled).<\/em>  Interested residents can <strong>apply online<\/strong> at:  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.framinghamma.gov\/serve\" target=\"_blank\">www.framinghamma.gov\/serve<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about roles and responsibilities or to learn more on how you can get involved contact the Citizen Participation Officer, Alaa Abusalah by email at: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:ama@framinghamma.gov\" target=\"_blank\">ama@framinghamma.gov<\/a> or by phone at: 508-532-5510.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: Framingham Municipal Announcement<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; Opportunities are available for Framingham residents to get involved with municipal government. Seats are available on several Boards, Commissions, and Committees. Help set the direction Framingham takes on determining needed changes to bylaws, ordinances and other legislation to meet municial goals and objectives By serving, residents provide community insight to the executive and legislative&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2021\/07\/20\/politics\/get-involved-in-framingham-government\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,21],"tags":[4698,4699,3305,4701,3307,3306,4702,4703,4704,4705,1757,4087,1614,4706,4707,595,28],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","category-politics","tag-2030-council","tag-agricultural-advisory-committee","tag-boards","tag-cable-advisory-committee","tag-commissions","tag-committees","tag-community-development-committee","tag-cultural-council","tag-elderly-disabled-tax-fund-committee","tag-fair-housing-committee","tag-framingham-conservation-commission","tag-framingham-government","tag-framingham-housing-authority","tag-human-relations-committee","tag-loring-arena-advisory-committee","tag-planning-board","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9911,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions\/9911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}