'Tis the Season: Town Meeting Season Has Begun!

It’s the first week of Brookline’s Town Meeting; there’s a new Town Moderator, a new Selectboard member and a new chair and vice-chair, new Town Meeting members, and 40 warrant articles to discuss. In 2021, our civic conversations are entering a new chapter.

As always, BIG is covering every moment
of these important townwide conversations.
Watch them LIVE at brooklineinteractive.org/live
or via our community cable channels, or at
your leisure the day after in our Town Meeting Playlist on YouTube and via our home page. 

In this email, you’ll see some special reports and highlight reels, including our 2020 Annual Report covering much of BIG’s civic work over the past 15 months in Covid Times and outlining our youth media and educational programs, board development, creative members, and partnerships. 

Despite providing such critical community value, BIG stands to lose 50% of our budget in the next five years.

In the final days of Town Meeting next week, there will be a resolution (#40) on the future of community media in Brookline, brought by Town Meeting members Bonnie Bastien and Dan Salzman, who are also BIG board members. We hope you’ll support BIG by asking your TMMs and Selectboard members to support this resolution, and consider making a donation to help BIG survive.

If passed, this resolution would create a longer-term, community-wide effort to identify stable funding for BIG, unlike the current BIG funding -per cable subscriber fees- which are in a precipitous decline of 20% annually. It would establish a Town community media working group, and encourage the Town to consider future, funded partnerships with BIG. 

You can also show even more BIG LOVE through our new I HEART BIG campaign, launching today: donate, buy t-shirts, and change your FB profile pic to support BIG! 

Thank you for your support, in this past year and always,

Kathy Bisbee, Executive Director, and the entire team at BIG!