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Wage & Salary Survey Needs Your Attention. We Can Do Better! Please Complete 2021 Wage Survey by June 30th!

NHMA coordinates this Wage Survey for the benefit of our member municipalities, but it is our members who must take the time to input their local wage data so that other members may benefit from this shared information. The quality of the “output” is totally dependent on the “input,” so we strongly encourage all our members to participate in this Wage Survey. Members are also encouraged to update their information as changes occur during the year. NHMA has simplified and streamlined the Wage Survey this year based on member feedback. We ask that you provide hourly or annualized wage data for the 153 elected and appointed positions we have identified in municipal government operations. We ask that you best fit your data into the 153 positions or roles provided even though certain positions may not be a perfect fit. For better organization, we recommend that you download the 153 positions in advance of sitting down to input into the Manage Wage Data portal contained in NHMA’s new website feature, the Member Account Administration area.

Thank you for your participation in this on-demand resource that provides information about the compensation of specific municipal positions in New Hampshire.

NHMA Offers Customized “On-Demand” Training Services for Only $350!

Thanks to COVID-19, we’re doing things a little differently with our “On-Demands” training. Instead of having a legal services attorney travel to your city or town, we’re now offering “On-Demands” as virtual presentations via the Teams or Zoom platform.

Attendees would log in to the training program from the comfort of their home or office and attend virtually, with the ability to ask live questions of the presenting attorney. Please contact us at legalinquiries@nhmunicipal.org for more information!

NHMA will offer this alternative method of training on a date and time that would be suitable for your board and staff, and you could always invite surrounding member municipalities to participate and contribute to the total cost. The cost is only $350.00.

If interested, please Download Fillable PDF On-Demand Order form and follow instructions.

Free. Free. Free. A New Price for .gov .gov Domains Available at NO COST for Qualifying Government Organizations

Though .gov is like a gated community – a digital space that’s only available to genuine U.S.-based government organizations – government IT administrators have often found the higher price ($400) hard to justify to their management in the face of lower-cost alternatives, typically priced at less than $20 annually from other Top Level Domains (TLDs). This is felt most acutely by smaller municipalities and the election community.

Since most other TLDs do not restrict who can obtain domains, it can be hard to tell whether a non-. gov-using online service that purports to be from a government is genuine. That impacts the public, who may be susceptible to cybersecurity or other real-world harms related to impersonation attempts. Similarly, these attempts can be successful at impersonating government officials to other officials inside government.

There’s perhaps never been a more important time for the pub-

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lic to know where to get official government information online. So, in order to remove unnecessary barriers and reduce the credibility of malicious impersonation attempts, .gov domains will now be available at no cost for qualifying organizations.

If you’re a U.S.-based gov-

ernment organization, check out https://home.dotgov.gov/registration/ to begin the registration process for a .gov domain.

Evergreen Farm Offers 30 Foot-tall Balsam Fir as Holiday Tree to Interested City or Town

Evergreen Farm in Kingston, New Hampshire has been growing choose-and-cut Christmas Trees since 1985. This 30+ foot-tall Balsam Fir was never chosen as a Christmas Tree and is now much too tall for any residential application. It is time for this beautiful tree to make room for new trees in the plantation, so Evergreen Farm is offering to donate it to a New Hampshire city of town that can give it a good home this holiday season. The chosen municipality will be responsible for cutting the tree and removing it from the Farm.

If interested, please give Glenn Coppelman of Evergreen Farm a call at 603.772.5355 (land), or 603.770.5355 (cell). Glenn can also be reached via email at gcoppelman@gmail.com.

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