Metro Mayors Coalition (MMC)
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.
Map description: A map of the Metro Mayors Coalition cities and towns. They are: Arlington, Medford, Melrose, Malden, Revere, Lynn, Everett, Somerville, Chelsea, Winthrop, Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brookline, Boston, Quincy, and Braintree.
The municipal officials in this group represent more than 1.6 million residents in the cities and towns of Arlington, Boston, Braintree, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Lynn, Malden, Medford, Melrose, Newton, Quincy, Revere, Somerville, Watertown, and Winthrop.
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.
Current MMC Co-chairs:
Medford Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn and Cambridge City Manager Yi-An Huang
Questions?
For more information about the Metro Mayors Coalition, contact Government Affairs Director Leah Robins at [email protected].
projects
Climate Taskforce
The Coalition's Climate Taskforce coordinates a regional and cross governmental effort to prepare the region for climate change and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
In May 2015, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, the Metro Mayors Coalition convened to sign a historic Climate Preparedness Commitment, to better prepare the region from the impacts of flooding and extreme heat.
A year later, the mayors signed an additional Commitment which set the goal of rapidly reducing carbon pollution to become a net zero region by 2050.
As part of the Commitments, the Coalition also launched the ongoing Climate Taskforce to guide collaborative efforts, share best practices across the region, and work jointly on key projects.
Some of the Climate Taskforce's work includes:
- Elevating the importance and helping to secure funding for regional infrastructure impacted by flooding;
- Developing Keeping Metro Boston Cool: A Regional Heat Preparedness and Adaptation Plan; and
- Advocating for more energy efficient building energy codes.
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.
Regional Housing Taskforce
In December 2017, the Metro Mayors Coalition announced the creation of a Regional Housing Taskforce 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 a press conference, the mayors and town managers stressed the importance of building a diversity of housing types and providing housing for vulnerable residents, including people with disabilities and low- and moderate-income households. Led by ten guiding principles for housing creation and a housing toolkit with over 100 strategies, the goal of the task force is to work together to increase housing stability for all of the region’s residents.
current membership
Arlington
Town Manager Jim Feeney
Boston
Mayor Michelle Wu
Braintree
Mayor Erin Joyce
Brookline
Town Administrator Chas Carey
Cambridge
City Manager Yi-An Huang,
co-chair
Chelsea
City Manager Fidel Maltez
Everett
Mayor Carlo Demaria, Jr.
Lynn
Mayor Jared Nicholson
Malden
Mayor Gary Christenson
Medford
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn,
co-chair
Melrose
Mayor Jen Grigoraitis
Newton
Mayor Ruthanne Fuller
Quincy
Mayor Thomas P. Koch
Revere
Mayor Patrick Keefe, Jr.
Somerville
Mayor Katjana Ballantyne
Watertown
City Manager George Proakis
Winthrop
Town Manager Tony Marino