Early Warning System
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MassLandlords Early Warning System
In a Nutshell
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Early Warning System Overview
Massachusetts open meeting law requires notice of public hearing be posted at least 48 hours in advance, excluding weekends and holidays. Even with 48 hours’ notice, this is not much time, compared to insiders who know roughly when any given issue will be scheduled.
MassLandlords has automatic monitors running on key state and city websites. These sites are the locations where public notices will be announced for important issues, like the state-wide rent control bill, or your local town’s real estate tax rate hearing. We intend to add to and maintain these monitors as sites are added and changed.
The monitors we are using are unhelpful, in the sense that they cannot tell what is significant. Your review of each email as it arrives is critical to help us determine whether a change is significant or not.
Many of the monitors are pointed at muncipal pages, which announce school committee hearings, health and human services meetings, and much more on a single page. Feel free to use these monitors to follow and participate in issues beyond MassLandlords’ official scope.