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Welcome to the Town of Amherst’s Online Public Engagement Platform!

Do you want to be engaged with the Town of Amherst? Do you want to share your thoughts and ideas? Are you looking for a deeper dive into the democratic process? Welcome to Engage Amherst! We want to hear from you because we work better, smarter, and stronger with our community's input. This platform allows you to provide direct feedback, share your ideas, and ask questions about a variety of issues, projects, and initiatives happening in Amherst. This one central hub helps you get involved on your own time. It all begins with just a click.

Engage Amherst is open to everyone who lives, works, and plays in Amherst. Whether you have a few minutes or more time to share, you can provide your input and learn about what is happening in the community. Just click on what interests you to get started today.

We are actively building this site. Please take a moment to view the content below and the FAQ's to the right.

Question: Why is the Town of Amherst engaging online?

Traditional public engagement or community involvement usually involves attending a public meeting or providing written submissions to council, and this can often be time consuming and inconvenient, and sometimes intimidating. However, Engage Amherst gives you the opportunity to have your say on issues that are important to you, at a time and place of your choice.

  • It is a quick, safe, and convenient way to have your say on a range of issues and topics.
  • It is a great way to keep up to date and contribute your views on issues affecting your community.
  • You can see what other community members think about an issue or topic, respond with your own views and engage in a discussion.
  • You do not have to attend community meetings at a set place and time, you can contribute at a time and place that suits you.
  • It allows for a range of different people, with different views to discuss matters that may impact their community.

Who can I contact about Engage Amherst?

Engage Amherst is coordinated by the Town of Amherst's Communications Manager.

If you have any questions about content and engagement process, please email info@amherstma.gov or sunrydb@amherstma.gov

If you have a question regarding a specific project currently open for consultation, please contact the relevant project manager. Their contact details can be found in the "Who's listening" section for each project.

Explore + Share: Our website includes a variety of interactive and informational tools where we encourage you to share your feedback, ask a question, answer a survey and more. It is important that we hear from all of Amherst, and this will help us ensure that we are!

Please explore Engage Amherst and register today to fully interact with our tools.

Welcome to the Town of Amherst’s Online Public Engagement Platform!

Do you want to be engaged with the Town of Amherst? Do you want to share your thoughts and ideas? Are you looking for a deeper dive into the democratic process? Welcome to Engage Amherst! We want to hear from you because we work better, smarter, and stronger with our community's input. This platform allows you to provide direct feedback, share your ideas, and ask questions about a variety of issues, projects, and initiatives happening in Amherst. This one central hub helps you get involved on your own time. It all begins with just a click.

Engage Amherst is open to everyone who lives, works, and plays in Amherst. Whether you have a few minutes or more time to share, you can provide your input and learn about what is happening in the community. Just click on what interests you to get started today.

We are actively building this site. Please take a moment to view the content below and the FAQ's to the right.

Question: Why is the Town of Amherst engaging online?

Traditional public engagement or community involvement usually involves attending a public meeting or providing written submissions to council, and this can often be time consuming and inconvenient, and sometimes intimidating. However, Engage Amherst gives you the opportunity to have your say on issues that are important to you, at a time and place of your choice.

  • It is a quick, safe, and convenient way to have your say on a range of issues and topics.
  • It is a great way to keep up to date and contribute your views on issues affecting your community.
  • You can see what other community members think about an issue or topic, respond with your own views and engage in a discussion.
  • You do not have to attend community meetings at a set place and time, you can contribute at a time and place that suits you.
  • It allows for a range of different people, with different views to discuss matters that may impact their community.

Who can I contact about Engage Amherst?

Engage Amherst is coordinated by the Town of Amherst's Communications Manager.

If you have any questions about content and engagement process, please email info@amherstma.gov or sunrydb@amherstma.gov

If you have a question regarding a specific project currently open for consultation, please contact the relevant project manager. Their contact details can be found in the "Who's listening" section for each project.

Explore + Share: Our website includes a variety of interactive and informational tools where we encourage you to share your feedback, ask a question, answer a survey and more. It is important that we hear from all of Amherst, and this will help us ensure that we are!

Please explore Engage Amherst and register today to fully interact with our tools.

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  • Share How are you working to ensure that feedback is gathered from folks who do not use or have access to the internet? Also -- how are you planning to market this page so that a wide swath of constituents can access it? I only found out about it because someone posted about it in a totally unrelated social media group. Have you considered doing a mailing to all residents like the one Jones sent a few weeks ago? on Facebook Share How are you working to ensure that feedback is gathered from folks who do not use or have access to the internet? Also -- how are you planning to market this page so that a wide swath of constituents can access it? I only found out about it because someone posted about it in a totally unrelated social media group. Have you considered doing a mailing to all residents like the one Jones sent a few weeks ago? on Twitter Share How are you working to ensure that feedback is gathered from folks who do not use or have access to the internet? Also -- how are you planning to market this page so that a wide swath of constituents can access it? I only found out about it because someone posted about it in a totally unrelated social media group. Have you considered doing a mailing to all residents like the one Jones sent a few weeks ago? on Linkedin Email How are you working to ensure that feedback is gathered from folks who do not use or have access to the internet? Also -- how are you planning to market this page so that a wide swath of constituents can access it? I only found out about it because someone posted about it in a totally unrelated social media group. Have you considered doing a mailing to all residents like the one Jones sent a few weeks ago? link

    How are you working to ensure that feedback is gathered from folks who do not use or have access to the internet? Also -- how are you planning to market this page so that a wide swath of constituents can access it? I only found out about it because someone posted about it in a totally unrelated social media group. Have you considered doing a mailing to all residents like the one Jones sent a few weeks ago?

    Elena asked about 3 years ago

    Hi Elena, Thank you for questions and suggestions! Our Community Participation Officer team is continuing to work on ways to reach those who may not have access to the internet. The Engage Amherst platform is also designed as mobile first, which makes engaging via a smart phone very easy as well, since many rely on a phone as their main internet enabled device. We'd love to hear your ideas re: reaching those who are not currently online. We're currently in a "soft launch" of the platform, to ensure the usability and to identify any problems or bugs. In the next week or so we will be more widely promoting the platform through a variety of channels including press/local media, ACTV, notices on our Downtown info signs and more. We'd love to continue hearing from you regarding your ideas and concerns. I really like your suggestion of a mailer and will look in to that! 

    ~Brianna at the Town of Amherst

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