[MassHistPres] local HC minutes

[Tucker, Jonathan]

The Amherst Historical Commission is an appointed volunteer citizen Town
board, which elects three officers--Chair, Vice-Chair, and Clerk.  It is
part of the Clerk's responsibility to take minutes.  The Amherst
Planning Department provides staff support for other
clerical/administrative tasks--reserving rooms, posting meeting or
public hearing notices (the latter for demolition delay hearings),
receiving/sending mail, etc.  In most of the smaller rural communities
that operate without staff, however, the volunteer citizen board
commissioners do it all, and without pay. 

Jonathan Tucker
Planning Director
Town Hall, 4 Boltwood Ave.
Amherst, MA  01002
(413) 259-3040
(413) 259-2410 [fax]
tuckerj at amherstma.gov   
 

-----Original Message-----
From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of
slater at alum.rpi.edu
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 1:39 PM
To: masshistpres at cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] local HC minutes

I'm curious if this clerk, or the secretary of any MA HCs are paid
positions.

If not, how do you coerce someone to do work in an unpaid position which
doesn't have the status of being a commissioner? Do HCs have
commissioners who are willing to volunteer as the secretary (which can
be elected from within or outside the commission)? 

Ralph


>The Clerk of Amherst's Historical Commission takes
>the meeting notes on
>her laptop and then refines them into printed minutes which are
>reviewed, approved, and archived. Usually she circulates the draft
>minutes via email prior to the next meeting, then staff provide hard
>copies at the meeting. Amendments made during approval are noted on her
>laptop and final versions sent to staff.
>
>Jonathan Tucker
>Planning Director
>Town Hall, 4 Boltwood Ave.
>Amherst, MA 01002
>(413) 259-3040
>(413) 259-2410 [fax]
>tuckerj at amherstma.gov 
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu
>[mailto:masshistpres-bounces at cs.umb.edu] On Behalf Of Marcia Starkey
>Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:53 AM
>To: MassHistPres
>Subject: [MassHistPres] local HC minutes
>
>Hello,
>
>Are there local historical commissions who do other than take longhand
>notes of meeting minutes? What are, or are there.. new technologies for
>doing it another way? This is always a job that needs help!
>
>Marcia Starkey, Greenfield HC
>
>
>
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