MassCOP’s 2024 Annual Convention

Mark your calendar for MassCOP’s 2024 Annual Convention

Key Information:

Dates: 9/18/24 – 9/20/24

Location: Emerald Resort, 35 Scudder Avenue, Hyannis, MA 02601

• Register for the Convention
• Review Convention Sponsorship Options
• Register for the 2024 Golf Tournament
• Review Golf Tournament Sponsorshp Options

**You must be pre-registered to attend the event.**

 There are two ticket options:

1 ) Premium Full Access – ($175.00) – includes unlimited access to all, including MassCOP gift, Convention Hall access, raffles Hospitality room.

2 ) Hospitality Room Plus Access – *($95.00) – includes access to the Hospitality Room for Wednesday and Thursday, Thursday luncheon, and Friday full breakfast only.

*This ticket does NOT include admission to the Convention Hall. Members are not eligible to vote, receive gifts, or enter the raffle prize drawing with a Partial.

Hotel Information:

The Emerald Resort and Cape Cod Irish Village (**formerly known as Hyannis Resort and Conference Center**)

35 Scudder Avenue | Hyannis, MA 02601

P: 508-394-9300 | stay@theemeraldresort.com

To obtain the group rate visit: www.theemeraldresort.com

Group Code: MAC24

Important Notes About Registration:

• Registration deadline for this event is September 12, 2024*
• After this date, a late registration fee of $25 will be added for a total of $200 per ticket.*
• The Reservation Office is available – Monday through Friday – 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Convention Agenda – Thursday, September 19, 2024

(Pre-registration is absolutely required before the commencement of this Convention.) 

8:15 a.m. (Doors Open) 

• Meeting Hall Opens – Grand 1 and Grand 2 (Coffee, juice, assorted breakfast muffins, fruit etc. available.)
• Voting Credentials Certified (Pre-registration absolutely required.)
• Call to Order: Opening Formalities
• Presentation of Colors: Honor Guard, Column & Pipe Band Pledge of Allegiance National Anthem – Scituate Select High School Choir, Led by William Richter
• Opening Prayer: Father Paul Clifford
• Opening Remarks: Scott Hovsepian, President
• State of the Union and Annual Report: Scott Hovsepian, President
• Awards: Andrea Warpula, Area 6 Vice President and Shelly Hughes, Framingham Area Vice President
• PEER Support Update: Mr. Thomas Famolare
• Secretary/Treasurer’s Report: Robert W. Murphy
• Proposed Amendment to the Constitution
• Nomination of Union Officers: Executive Officers: President, First Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer (4-year Terms)
• Nominations of Area Vice Presidents: Areas 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 12, 14 (Two-Year Terms)
• Update from Washington: William J. Johnson, Executive Director and General Counsel – NAPO
• MassCOP’s New POST (Massachusett’s new Police Reform Commission or “Peace Officers Standards and Training” ) Internal Process & Representation of our Members before the Commission to Date.    Sandulli Grace Attorney’s Casey Berkowitz, John Becker, and MassCOP’s In-House Counsel Timothy King.
• Your Pension, Beneficiaries & Social Security Presentation: Frank Zecha and Tim Smyth, Executive Directors, Brookline and Boston Retirement Boards
• Legislative Report John Nelson, First Vice-President
• Sandulli Grace’s Legal Tie Award: Attorney Daniel Fogarty and Attorney Jennifer Smith
• Luncheon Buffet – Bass River Room (Second floor off of Hotel lobby)
• **Sign-up:  Annual MassCOP’s Bocce & Cornhole Tournament.  (Cornhole Commissioner Chris Lima, TCI America)

Friday: September 20, 2024 

9:30 a.m. (Doors Open) 

• Full Breakfast Buffet Served: Bass River Room
• Meeting Hall Opens: Grand 1 and Grand 2
• Sandulli Grace Presentation: FY25 Bargaining Strategies and Trending Issues in our Locals
  
• Election of Officers
• Budget FY204
• Update from Cosmo Macero, Seven Letter.  MassCOP’s Public Relations Consulting Firm: Working for our Locals, working for our Members!
• Good of the Union: Open Forum
• Presentation of Trophies: Bocce & Corn Hole Winners Announced
• Raffles, 50/50 Raffle:  *Must be Present to Win
• Closing: Scott Hovsepian, President
• Closing Prayer: Cantor Richard Wolberg
• Adjourn

(Agenda is subject to change.)

********** MassCOP Local and Members MUST be in Good Standing to participate in this event.