North Suburban Planning Council (NSPC)
The North Suburban Planning Council (NSPC) is a Greater Boston subregion of nine (9) communities: Burlington, Lynnfield, North Reading, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, Wilmington, Winchester, and Woburn, working collaboratively on regional issues.
The Goals of NSPC are to facilitate communication between communities, promote and seek opportunities for inter-municipal coordination and cooperation, and create an agenda for action on planning topics, such as growth management and land use.
The planning topics and action work allow our subregion to retain its character and its desirability as a place to live and work.
Your Subregional Coordinators:
Francelis Morillo Suarez ([email protected])
Brandon Stanaway ([email protected])
NSPC Leadership
Co-Chair: Jane Wierzbicki, Town of Wilmington
Co-Chair: Taylor Herman, Town of Winchester
NSPC | About
Our Purpose
The purpose of NSPC is to:
- Facilitate cooperative regional planning.
NSPC | Meetings and Events
Meeting and Events Archive
Upcoming Meetings and Events
September 2024 Meeting
September 12, 2024 | 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
In-person | Burlington Town Hall Annex
Basement Meeting Room
25 Center Street, Burlington, MA
Meeting Agenda
Meetings are typically held on the second Thursday of the month from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. Meeting dates and times are subject to change. Meeting locations rotate among member communities.
NSPC | Communities
NSPC Subregion
Description: A map of the NSPC subregion. A gray colored map with the nine communities of the subregion - Wilmington, North Reading, Reading, Lynnfield, Burlington, Wakefield, Woburn, Stoneham, and Winchester in green.
Communities
NSPC | Activities
Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Activities
NSPC Youth Internship Panel
Cities and towns across MAPC face challenges hiring and retaining staff as well as creating a pipeline of younger, passionate staff who can take over as veteran staff retire. Our subregional members emphasized this challenge at the March 2024 legislative breakfast.
Based on this, we organized a panel consisting of a workforce organization, a university, and a local sustainability planner which work to place students and young adults at internships and jobs in the planning field.
Panelists and planners discussed how to best advertise entry level job and internship positions, the time it takes to manage new hires well and set them up for success, how to ensure the hiring process is equitable, the financial barriers to hiring interns, among many other topics.
Panelists:
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Gemma Wilkens, Former Gloucester Sustainability Coordinator
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Chris Albrizio-Lee, CEO, MassHire Metro North Workforce Board
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Rebecca Westerling, Senior Cooperative Coordinator, Faculty at Northeastern University