Please note: Our next meeting will be in June
The date and details will follow soon
Crane Hoisting License Course:
After much success, another class is being planned! This class leads to the state written test for Hoisting License certification. Materials are included. The class is limited to 20 attendees, so call Joe Hamel, MSA President, at 508-438-0215 to reserve your seat; or email Joe at shrewsburysigns@aol.com
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Sign Association.
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Save the dates - for our upcoming meetings:
June 2009 (date & details to follow soon)
September 8, 2009
November 10, 2009
(details to come a few weeks before each meeting)
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Members:
You can now pay your member dues by credit card! Please contact Heather Dudko, MSA Treasurer, at 508-832-6720
LEGISLATIVE NEWS:
MSA members: On October 17th a meeting was held to discuss the (continued) issue of licensing sign installers in Massachusetts. Numerous State Representatives and State Senator Harriett Chandler were present. State Representative Jim O'Day (Worcester) agreed to be the contact person to represent the legislature. As you may know, this legislature has been brought before the House before, but had been stopped by the Ways and Means Committee. Senator Chandler and the Representatives (present) have also agreed to research the reasons it was halted at the Ways and Means Committee.
Thank you to Andy Serrato, Serrato Signs (Worcester) for working with Joe Hamel, Shrewsbury Signs (Shrewsbury) to help "bullet" the important points of this legislation to re-present to Representative O'Day who will then turn it over to the House Council for review.
As of May 1, 2008, all mercury-added products (including fluorescent lamps, some neon lighting, mercury vapor, metal halide, high pressure sodium, and short-arc mercury types) may not be disposed of in the trash. Improper disposal may result in fines as much as $25,000. per violation per day, by Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Information on lamp recycling is available at www.lamprecycle.org and www.mass.gov/dep/
More information to come from Massachusetts Sign Association. Please contact Joe Hamel, MSA President at 508-438-0215 if you have information regarding this topic.
Anyone with information on ZONING BYLAW CHANGES to the sign code in any city or town in Massachusetts is urged to call Joe Hamel, MSA President, at 508-438-0215. We are here to help!
Please read the legal notices in your local newspapers.
NEWS ALERT: There are proposed changes to disallow electronic message signs in the city of Worcester. For more information, please contact Joe Hamel at (508) 438-0215.
If you are an MSA member, and would like to be listed on our "Members Page", please email us at
contact us at: (508) 438-0215