Murray Supervisor of Records July 27, 2021 SPR21/1524 Shirley Dorai Malden Public Schools 215 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms. Dorai: I have received the petition of Malden Transparency requesting reconsideration of my July 1, 2021 determination pertaining to a request to the Malden Public Schools (School) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1).

Murray Supervisor of Records July 1, 2021 SPR21/1524 Shirley Dorai Malden Public Schools 215 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms. Dorai: I have received the petition of Open Malden appealing the response of the Malden Public Schools (School) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1).

City of Malden, 5 MLC 1752, 1764, MUP-3017 (March 20, 1979). Letter of Dismissal (contd) MUP-14-4199 The reasons that the Employer gave for presenting its positions during the reopener negotiations were not trivial but were based on what it understood to be the results of the wage and classification study that it had commissioned.

The other complaints were previously resolved in separate determinations. 1 In reaching our determinations, we reviewed the Open Meeting Law complaints, the bodies responses, the requests for further review, various documents provided to our office by the Complainant, notices and minutes for various meetings, and the City of Maldens website, www.cityofmalden.org, which is its official notice posting location.

City of Malden, 32 MLC 97, 99, CAS-04-3599 (November 2, 2005) (citing Sheriff of Worcester County, Committee, 10 MLC CAS-03-3543 30 MLC 132, 136, 1226, 1230, CAS-2525 clarification petition is appropriate (2004); (September if the outcome North Andover School Further, a unit 27,1983). sought by the petition is [c]learly supported by an apparent deficiency in the scope of the existing unit and must be, at least arguably, within the realm of what the

JeffWulfson Deputy Commissioner Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 7 5 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Mr. Wulfson: I have received the petition of James J. Palermo appealing the response of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to his request for public records. G. L. c. 66 10(b); see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(2). Specifically, Mr.

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148-5023 Dear Attorney Varon: I have received your request for reconsideration of my prior written determination. See SPR14/353 Determination ofthe Supervisor ofRecords (October 6, 2014). I ordered the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) to provide James J.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records June 5, 2024 SPR24/1309 Shirley Dorai Records Access Officer Malden Public Schools 110 Pleasant Street, 3rd Floor Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records May 14, 2024 SPR24/1309 Shirley Dorai Records Access Officer Malden Public Schools 110 Pleasant Street, 3rd Floor Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

Legal Counsel Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Attorney Varon: I have received the petition of Gerard Mackin appealing the response of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, Mr.

Legal Counsel Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Attorney Varon: I have received the petition of Gerard Mackin appealing the response of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (Department) to a request for public records. G. L. c. 66, 10A; see also 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). Specifically, Mr.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records May 24, 2024 SPR24/1313 Shirley Dorai Records Access Officer Malden Public Schools 110 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records May 3, 2024 SPR24/1313 Shirley Dorai Records Access Officer Malden Public Schools 110 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records January 2, 2024 SPR23/2668 Helene Bettencourt Associate Commissioner Commissioners Office Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records February 14, 2024 SPR23/2668 Helene Bettencourt Associate Commissioner Commissioners Office Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth Public Records Division Manza Arthur Supervisor of Records December 4, 2023 SPR23/2668 Helene Bettencourt Associate Commissioner Commissioners Office Department of Elementary and Secondary Education 75 Pleasant Street Malden, MA 02148 Dear Ms.

Further, when contemplating under Chapter 32B, insurance changes for school employees a municipality has an obligation to refrain from changes those until the employees impasse. 20, health 1997). school with committee notice and City of Malden, 23 MLC provides an the implementing exclusive representative of opportunity to bargain to resolution or 181, 184, MUP-9312, This obligation to bargain any benefit over changes MUP-9313 to health (February insurance

See, e.g., City of Malden, 23 MLC 181, 183 (1997); Town of Ludlow, 17 MLC at 1197-98. Given the similarity of these two provisions, to read G.L. c. 32B, 11C otherwise would effectively nullify decades of precedent finding that health insurance benefits and costs are a mandatory subject of bargaining. 2.

(citing City of Malden, 23 MLC 181, 184 (1997)). Importantly, the Department and CERB have already ruled that the City violated the Law when it modified health insurance premium costs for its union retirees only 2 % years ago, in 2011.