Ryan VIA FACSIMILE & FIRST CLASS MAIL Edward Srednicki, Executive Secretary Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Labor Relations 19 Staniford Street, 1 Floor Boston, MA 02114 Re: United Steelworkers and Town of Dartmouth DLR No: MUP-10-6110 Dear Mr. Srednicki: This firm represents United Steelworkers, in the above-referenced matter. The parties have resolved the matter and the Union hereby withdraws the charge from the Department.

Town of Dartmouth, 38 MLC 64, 65 (2011), citing Bristol County Sheriff's Department, 31 MLC 6, 21 (2004). In Town of Dartmouth, the parties ground rules included a provision that there would be no press releases unless negotiations reached the mediation stage.

The School Committee makes this contention in an attempt to distinguish Town of Dartmouth, which involves a ground rule prohibiting press releases, by noting that the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen in that case made statements regarding contract negotiations in radio and newspaper interviews. 38 MLC 64, MUP-10-5831 38 MLC 169 (January 30, 2012). (H.O. August 29, 2011), affd.

The instant case is distinguished from Town of Dartmouth, in which the Chairman of the Select Board discussed negotiations in radio and newspaper interviews. 38 MLC 64 (2011), affd, 38 MLC 169 (2012); compare, Bristol County Sheriff, 31 MLC 1 (2004)(ground rule prohibited any public statement, including to the media).

The Joseph Arthur Beauvais House 404 County Street New Bedford, MA 02740-4936 Dear Attorney Cruise: I have received the petition of Scott Lake appealing the response of the Town of Dartmouth (Town) to his request for public records. G. L. c. 66 10(b); see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(2). Specifically, Mr. Lake requested access to and a copy of four (4) categories of records related to a specifically identified Town employee.

The Town of Dartmouth will pay the maximum percentage permitted by Town Meeting enactment or referendum of the cost of the following types of insurance coverage: B. 1. A $10,000.00 Term Life Insurance Plan of the type presently available to nurse/educators. 2. All individual school nurse/educators shall have liability insurance coverage paid for by the School Department of the Town of Dartmouth.

The Committee will not be bound by the wage scale of the Personnel Board of the Town of Dartmouth. This agreement between the Committee and the Association went into effect September, 1967. B.

The Committee will not be bound by the wage scale of the Personnel Board of the Town of Dartmouth. This agreement between the Committee and the Association went into effect September, 1967. B.

Savastano, Esq. for the Town of Dartmouth (Town) appealing your response for the Department of Environmental Protection (Department) to his August 14,2013 request for public records. See G. L. c. 66, 10(b); see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(6). Specifically, Attomey Savastano requested copies of financial records relating to the individual listed as the owner of property located at 452 Old Fall River Road in Dartmouth.

Town of Dartmouth, 17 MCSR 40 (2004) (commission held bypass reasonably justified because respondent has discretion to consider nature, manner, or simply length of experience even though it was previously computed into candidates score).

The union has expressed a counter to the ground rules proposal of the Town that include the size of the bargaining committee and acknowledgment by the Town of the bargaining conduct obligations of the Board of Selectmen in light of the Decision in Town of Dartmouth, MUP 10-5831.

Mackay, Esq, Deputy General Counsel for Policy and Programs Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection laurel.mackay@mass.gov RE: Open Meeting Law Complaint Dear Attorney Mackay: This office received a complaint from Christopher Michaud, the Director of Public Health for the Town of Dartmouth, on February 23, 2023, 1 alleging that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protections (the Department) Title 5/Groundwater Stakeholder Group