{"id":7881,"date":"2020-04-21T08:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcdev3.com\/mwra\/weekly-check-in-april-13-17-2020-3\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T12:34:06","slug":"weekly-check-in-april-13-17-2020-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/weekly-check-in-april-13-17-2020-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Check-in: April 13-17, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning to all.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that you are all staying safe. Advisory Board staff continues to work remotely. Below is an update on ongoing activities impacting our communities.<\/p>\n<h6>Advisory Board: Expediting the Budget Review Process<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Both staffs of the Advisory Board and MWRA continue to develop a plan to mitigate proposed increases to communities for FY21.<\/li>\n<li>We realize that this year, more than ever, communities need their MWRA assessments as early as possible in order to develop their budgets.<\/li>\n<li>With this in mind, the Advisory Board is accelerating our upcoming meeting schedule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Meeting Schedule<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>The Executive Committee has been rescheduled to April 30th at 10:00 AM to discuss and vote on Advisory Board Package of Recommendations on the Community Loan Assistance Program, as well as the FY21 proposed CEB, which will assist MWRA communities. (<a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/2-exec-com-agenda.pdf\">Click here for agenda<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>The Full Advisory Board will remotely meet on May 4th at 10:00 AM to discuss the package of recommendations brought forward by the Executive Committee. (<a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/3-public-notice.pdf\">Click here for legal notice<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>MWRA is in the process of rescheduling their Board of Directors meeting for the first week of May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Financial Impacts of COVID-19<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Raftelis on behalf of AWWA and AMWA developed a report that outlines the sobering impacts on water utilities. (Click here for the <a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/AWWA-AMWA-COVID-19_Report_2020-04.pdf\">report<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>Boston Business Journal outlines conditions as taxes evaporate. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/boston\/news\/2020\/04\/16\/as-taxes-evaporate-so-do-billions-for-mbta-and.html\">Paywall; click here to access<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>MWRA Update<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Laskey sent the update out to all employees last week. (<a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/MWRA-All-E-Mail.pdf\">Click here to access<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h6>Calendar<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li>Thursday, April 30 | 10:00 AM | <a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/event\/executive-committee-22-2-2-2-2-2-2\/\">Executive Committee Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Thursday, April 30 | 5:30 PM | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwra.com\/01news\/2020\/040820-publichearingnotice.html\">MWRA Public Hearing on Proposed FY21 CEB<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Monday, May 4 | 10:00 AM | <a href=\"https:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/event\/advisory-board-canton-6\/\">Advisory Board Meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>TBD | MWRA Board of Directors Meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the past week, including an accelerated budget review schedule and revised online meeting dates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":7882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}