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Accounting / Finance
The Office of the Town Accountant helps protect the financial interests of the Town by providing independent oversight of the Town's finances and by ensuring that financial transactions are executed legally, efficiently, and effectively.
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Animal Control
The mission of Animal Control is to provide safe, humane shelter for unwanted, stray, abused, and impounded animals in accordance with State regulations.
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Ashland Public Library
Learn about the services provided by the Ashland Public Library.
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Assessor's Office
The Assessor's Office maintains the assessing records for all properties within the Town of Ashland.
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Conservation
The Conservation Office oversees wetlands permits and stormwater permits for the Town of Ashland.
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Department of Prevention & Human Services
Department of Human Services provides advocacy and social service programs to youth and their families in the Town of Ashland.
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Department of Public Works
The Department of Public Works is responsible for a vast array of Town infrastructure services.
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Economic Development
The mission of the Economic Development department is to encourage, promote, and support growth and development within the town.
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Facilities Management
Facility Management assures the ongoing maintenance and quality care of Ashland's public municipal facilities, buildings, and offices.
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Fire Department
Visit the Ashland Fire Department page to learn about personnel, burning permits, and more.
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Health
The Board of Health is dedicated to the prevention of disease in the community.
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Human Resources
Through strategic partnerships and collaboration, the Human Resources Department engages, cultivates, and supports a high performing and diverse workforce, fostering a healthy, safe, and productive work environment. Human Resources staff are systematically focused on improving individual and organizational effectiveness by anticipating and meeting shifting needs, a pillar of which is championing career and professional growth.
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Information Technology (IT)
Ashland's Municipal Information Technology (IT) Department is dedicated to providing and supporting reliable technologies and technology-based services in a timely, high-quality, cost-effective manner to all clients of its municipal government.
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Inspection Services
The mission of the department of Inspection / Development Services is to ensure that the built environment within the Town of Ashland is a safe place for citizens to live, work, do business, learn, worship and be entertained.
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Planning
The Planning Board upholds and implements the community's development policies through the review and approval of, among other things, subdivision plats, site plans and special permit applications.
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Police Department
The mission of the Police Department is to promote an atmosphere of partnership with the community, working together toward the common goal of protecting life and property.
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Recreation
The Ashland Recreation Department is a rapidly growing amenity to the town. We offer a wide variety of programs year round for the community.
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Senior Services
Ashland Elder Services promote the independence and well-being of the Town’s valued senior citizen community.
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Sustainability
Our mission is to help enhance the quality of life in Ashland by addressing contributors of climate change and creating opportunities to create a safe and healthy future for people and our natural resources.
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Town Clerk
It is the mission of the Office of the Town Clerk of Ashland to be a provider of information and offer quality services to the community with a customer focused attitude.
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Town Manager
Ashland's Town Manager is the Chief Administrative and Fiscal Officer for the Town.
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Treasurer / Collector
The Treasurer/Collector is responsible for the billing, collecting, and investing of all Town funds including real estate and personal property taxes, motor vehicle excises, water/sewer bills, as well as a myriad of miscellaneous departmental service charges, permits, licenses, and fees.
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Veterans Services
State and local government leaders wanted to recognize service in the armed forces by providing certain essential benefits to men and women (both living and deceased) who had borne the burden of military duty—and to their families.