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Just an experiment to see if this is useful. Type something in here to search only the Framingham Town Hall website.

Steve Orr
Webmaster

Framingham Town Hall	This will get you to the web page maintained by the Town Hall. It's good for finding out about some public hearings and agendas and Who's Who in Town government.
framingham.com	Some more information is available at framingham.com. It is commercially operated, but the information is worth exploring.
townonline.com	Here is a link to townonline.com, which is run by the same people who own the MetroWest News.
STEPPS	Stop Tax Exempt Private Property Sprawl(STEPPS) a group whose mission is to educate the public and advocate changes in government towards the goal of basic fairness in the hosting of tax-exempt private properties.
Laurie Lee	Laurie Lee has done extensive research on the situation in Framingham regarding Human Social Services. Excellent work.
Framingham Taxpayers Association	Here is the Framingham Taxpayers Association-- go there and support them.
abetterframingham.org	Harold Wolfe's presentation of Framingham politics.
MetroWest Local News	And while we're talking about the MetroWest, this link will take you to a list of local stories in the MetroWest Daily News. They're not all about Framingham, but you can use your search function to find the ones of interest.
MetroWest Daily News	Different, but related is the homepage of the MetroWest Daily News.
Framingham Police	Here is where the Framingham Police live. Krystine and I took the Citizen Safety Academy class there and they are definitely a world-class police department.
Michelle's blog on Framingham	Michelle S. put together a nice blog of sites and experiences of Framingham. Thanks Michelle.
Framingham Special Education Parent Advisory Council	Cat Kaner-Taytslin is one of the people involved in this group

• Sept 15 and 22, 2006

  Now we get to the dreaded event entitled "Pictures of Blight". Everyone loved it except that the MWDN used it as an excuse to fill more column inches at the expense of claiming to not understand why it was done.

  I wrote a response which was graciously accepted.

• What! You didn't know that we were written up in the world famous Framingham TAB ?
• Wait! They did it again. This time I get a good article and a bad article all on the same day. Maybe I'm doing something right.
• On the theory that any advertising is good advertising... Here's an article by Jenn Abelson .

• 10/25/05 A letter sent 10/24/05 responding to the letters of SMOC's counsel dated 8/25/05 and 9/9/05 challenging the legality of the zoning bylaw changes passed at the 8/3/05 Special Town Meeting.
• 10/17/05 A collection of four letters obtained from town hall of correspondance between town officials and SMOC.

  First we have a letter dated July 12, 2005 which is from SMOC's attorneys to the town Building Inspector.

  Then we have another letter dated Aug 19, 2005 also from SMOC's attorneys also to our town Building Inspector.

  Next is one dated Aug 25, 2005 where SMOC's attorneys are complaining to the Massachusetts Attorney General about the bylaw we passed that merely restores powers that we had previously mistakenly signed away.

  And another letter dated Sept 9, 2005 which is also from SMOCs attorneys to the Mass AG.

  Also, we have from 1/13/97 a letter to Town Clerk George King from the Assistant Attorney General regarding approval of 1996 zoning bylaw amendments.

  A letter from 3/18/97 which is a memo to town meeting members explaining article 38 to exclude Dover Projects from site plan review.

  From 4/9/97 we have minutes of the planning board approving article 38.

  From 4/23/97 is a document which is the history of article 38.

• 5/23/05 A spreadsheet of properties owned by SMOC. Available in html or as an Excel spreadsheet.
• 1/18/05 A chart of how the Town Meeting vote went for funding the the new McAuliffe Branch Library. See it here .
  Also, you can see the Town's display of the same data for Article 8 and Article 9 .
• 11/30/04 By popular demand, here is the 2005 Political Calendar from the Office of the Clerk.
• 9/01/04 This is a writeup on Senior Tax Relief contributed by Linda Dunbrack. Thanks Linda.
• 8/13/04 Here is an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) on the Housing Action Plan.
• 8/12/04 This is the revised version of the Housing Action Plan in Word format and the diff of the new document with the previous version .
• 7/26/04 Here's a link to the Commonwealth Capital Application.
• 7/19/04 The new Framingham Housing Policy in Word format or in text format or in PDF format or in HTML (preferred) .
  Also, the Housing Action Plan in Word and in text and also in PDF format .
• 7/23/04 A copy of the Littleton Housing Study in Word format and also in text format as an example of how other towns are doing it. Their Master Plan is also available .
• The incredible powerpoint presentation done by Tom LaRose for the JCHE Hearing at the ZBA on 5/24/04.