Advocacy Training Recap

Thank you to those who joined us last week for our first in-person meeting since September 2024! We were excited to use our time together as an educational opportunity, and we are very grateful to Policy Committee member Ben Collings for providing us with an overview of how to do advocacy at the State level in Maine.

Below are links to resources that Ben walked us through which may be useful:

Maine State Legislature:

Maine State Legislature Website

Bill Tracking & Search

• View fiscal notes, testimony, amendments

Legislative Committee Information

• View schedule for upcoming public hearings in each committee

Weekly Calendar

• View all upcoming work sessions & hearings
• Advance calendar updated the night before each session day

Register to Testify Electronically (Zoom) and/or Submit Testimony

Look up State Senators

• Find contact information including email address & phone number

Look up State Representatives

• Find contact information including email address & phone number

City of Portland:

City of Portland Meetings & Agenda Portal

PHEA Pulse Survey

Thank you to our wonderful MEG committee chairs for creating a brief pulse survey to gather input from members on the Alignment’s current & future roles. This was distributed as a paper survey to June 11 meeting attendees. We encourage those who were not able to attend to complete the survey in this Google Form. It is anonymous and will only take a minute or two!