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Regional Mayors Climate Preparedness Summit 31
Metropolitan Mayors Coalition

MAPC

Smart Growth & Regional Collaboration

The Metropolitan Mayors Coalition is a group of cities and towns in the urban core of Metro Boston whose leaders gather to exchange information and create solutions for common problems.

The municipal officials in this group represent more than 1.4 million residents in the cities and towns of Arlington, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, Watertown, and Winthrop.

Image is a map of the Greater Boston region outlined, and lists most of the cities who are in the Metro Mayors Coalition.

MAPC helped to establish the Metro Mayors Coalition in 2001 and provides staff support and policy expertise to this group.

The Metro Mayors Coalition develops an agenda and action plan focused on the key issues affecting urban core communities. The Coalition promotes regional, collaborative approaches and utilizes a wide range of methods to achieve its objectives, including establishing working groups and task forces; issuing reports; drafting and advocating for legislation; applying together as a region for state and federal grants; and pursuing cooperative projects that achieve important cost savings and efficiencies.

Questions?

For more information about the Metro Mayors Coalition, contact Government Affairs Director Leah Robins at lrobins@mapc.org.

projects

In May 2015, the Metro Mayors Coalition convened to sign a historic Climate Preparedness Commitment. The mayors and managers pledged to work together to prepare the region for climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the summit, the Coalition also launched an ongoing task force to guide collaborative efforts to address vulnerabilities in the region’s communities and shared infrastructure.

Some of the Coalition’s Work Includes:

  • Climate Heat Plan 
  • Climate Mitigation Agreement
  • Net Zero Commitment 

The Metro Mayors Climate Taskforce coordinates a regional and cross governmental effort to protect critical infrastructure and other vital resource systems. The Taskforce makes policy recommendations and sets regional plans based on goals outlined in the Climate Preparedness and Mitigation Commitments. 

Opioid Working Group

The Coalition’s work addressing the rise of opiate misuse in communities was spearheaded by a combination of constituents’ requests to take action at the local level and interest in understanding best practices for improving response, recovery and prevention efforts. These requests prompted the Metro Mayors Coalition to host a forum on the opioid epidemic in May 2017. From that event and subsequent interviews with key municipal public health officials from the Coalition’s cities and towns, strategic policy and project areas were recommended for further work, which remains ongoing.

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Regional Housing Partnership

In December 2017, the Metro Mayors Coalition announced the creation of a Regional Housing Partnership to address the serious housing needs of the Metro Boston Area. In October 2018, the mayors and managers of the Metro Mayors Coalition announced a landmark housing production goal: 185,000 new units by 2030 in their 15 communities. In a compact and at the press conference, the mayors and town managers stressed the importance of building a diversity of housing types and stresses the importance of providing housing for vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities and low- and moderate-income households. Led by 10 guiding principles for housing creation and a housing strategies toolkit with over 100 strategies, the goal of the partnership is to work together to increase housing stability for all of the region’s residents.

Read the Phase 2 Tracking Progress Update

current membership

Arlington
Town Manager Sandy Pooler

Boston 
Mayor Michelle Wu

Braintree
Mayor Charles C. Kokoros

Brookline
Town Administrator Chas Carey

Cambridge
City Manager Yi-An Huang

Chelsea
Interim City Manager Edward (Ned) Keefe

Everett
Mayor Carlo Demaria, Jr.

Malden
Mayor Gary Christenson

Medford
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn

Melrose
Mayor Paul Brodeur (Chair)

Newton
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller

Quincy
Mayor Thomas P. Koch

Revere
Mayor Brian Arrigo

Somerville
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne

Watertown
City Manager George Proakis

Winthrop
Town Manager Tony Marino