Materials for Upcoming Ratification Vote

For the upcoming ratification vote (20 October), you may want to review these 2 documents:

Memorandum of Agreement
PowerPoint (with information/summary/highlights)

News & Events

Election Results

Official results of the APA Statewide Officer Election - 2021:

President: Seth Bean
Vice President: Susan McNeil
Secretary: Mark Powers
Do you approve of the change to the APA by-law language?: Yes

Full results available to view on electionrunner.

Bylaws: Proposed Changes

Download the PDF below to review the proposed change up for vote on Monday, 20 December 2021:

Proposed change to bylaws

Candidates: State-Wide Offices

Below are materials provided by verified candidates for state-wide offices in the upcoming election. Materials are in PDF format.

Remember, the election will be held electronically Monday 20 December at 10:00 am through Tuesday 21 December at 2:00 pm. Dues-paying APA members are eligible to vote. The APA and MTA do not provide funding to candidates for campaigns, nor do they endorse candidates.

Candidate(s) for President:

Seth Bean

Results: Ratification Vote

hand placing paper ballot into ballot box

Our 2020-2023 APA Agreement has officially been ratified!

The final tally, with 60+% of eligible voters casting ballots:

In favor of Ratification: 789
Opposed to Ratification: 19

We had particularly high voter participation from Framingham State, Mass Art and Fitchburg State. And overall - this was a great turnout of voters! Thanks to all who worked to get this Ratification completed.

JUNETEENTH

June 19th is now a state holiday for employees of the state of Massachusetts. For employees in Higher Ed when "Juneteenth" falls on a weekday, all State Offices are closed. If it falls on a Sunday, the holiday is observed Monday and offices are closed. If it falls on a Saturday, the State Offices are open (on Friday) but the APA contract allows us to either take the Holiday that Friday or at a later time.

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