Meetings & Governance
Board of Directors Meeting
Highlights:
The Executive Director explained that the Authority’s outside counsel, Pullman Comley, has been working to create the master form contract that will govern all consultant relationships, and that all contractors would be formally under contract soon.
The Executive Director provided an update on municipal engagement and proudly announced that nine municipalities had opted in as of March 20th.
The Board engaged in a conversation about the way in which the Authority will interact with member municipalities on zoning.
The Executive Director updated the Board on ongoing branding efforts and invited a subset of the Board to participate in a conversation with the communications team to review some visual ideas. He indicated that the intent is to launch the website and a robust social media strategy this spring.
The Executive Director walked through the end-of-February budget report.
The Board approved a modification of the Authority’s name to the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority (CMDA).
Board of Directors Meeting
Highlight:
The Executive Director provided an operational update, indicating that he had sent to the Board an operational milestone checklist so that folks can get a sense of the broad actions that have been accomplished, are underway, and are pending.
The Executive Director described the upcoming process to engage firms off the on-call lists for various task orders.
The Executive Director explained that the first round of public-facing documents and the preliminary website are being created.