HAPPENINGS Cowal Joins NHMA as Municipal Services Counsel Please join NHMA as we welcome our newest staff member, Jonathan Cowal, to the team. Jonathan Cowal provides both legislative and legal services to NHMA’s member municipalities. Before joining NHMA, Jonathan served as a prosecutor in both Rockingham and Hillsborough County. Jonathan received his bachelor’s degree from Bridgewater State University and is a 2015 cum laude graduate from New England School of Law in Boston. Jonathan worked briefly as an associate attorney at the law firm of Falbo, Solari and Goldberg in Winthrop, Massachusetts before becoming an Assistant District Attorney for Essex County in 2015. Please join us in welcoming Jonathan Cowal to the NHMA team as our Municipal Services Counsel.
Time to Update Wage & Salary Survey The time has come again for all member municipalities to review, update and verify their wage and salary information in the Members Features box on NHMA’s landing web page: www.nhmunicipal.org. Please look for “Municipal Wage Data” in your Member Features box as the spot to update this important member information. Every year, NHMA asks our members to update their member compensation information for the online wage survey. The information members provide allows for an annual report of the wages and salaries paid to New Hampshire municipal employees and elected officials. NHMA makes the survey data available to members through its website: www.nhmunicipal.org. Municipal members can use this online tool to make sure that their compensation scale is competitive with other municipalities with comparable populations and budgets. Responding to the wage survey is voluntary, but NHMA encourages all cities and towns to complete it every year, since widespread participation makes the data more useful. The 2022 wage survey will be available for data entry until May 31st! www.nhmunicipal.org
After Each Election, Update Your Information with NHMA Please Update Your Municipal Roster by May 31st!
Most towns are beginning to hold their town meeting starting in March, so this is a good time to remind members to update their municipal roster. Since town meeting means reelections and new elections, we ask that you take a moment to update your information for our New Hampshire Municipal Officials Directory. The time has come again for all member municipalities to review, update and verify their information in the Members Features box on NHMA’s landing web page. If you think you have a member account with NHMA, but can’t see the Members Features box shown above, then click the NHMA logo in the upper left-hand corner like a reset button. If your Members Features box appears, then you have membership rights. If your Member Features box does not appear it is likely that you do not yet have a member account with NHMA. Please consult with your Account Administrator, typically someone in supervisory role such as town manager or human resource director, in creating a member account for you. To maintain the accuracy and timeliness of all submitted information, each municipal member is expected to have one or two persons handle these updates. The deadline is May 31st. Updating this information each year helps NHMA make sure it can effectively communicate and engage with municipal officials from across the state on legislative activity and opportunities for workshops, webinars, conferences, and other educational and training events. Deadline is May 31st. This gives the six municipalities with elections in May plenty of time to complete this assignment. As always, we thank you for your help in making the Directory as complete and up to date as possible. MARCH/APRIL 2022
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