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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Deborah D. Blumer |
| Address |
Framingham, Massachusetts , United States |
| Email | Deborah.Blumer@state.ma.us |
| Website | [Link] |
| Born |
October 18, 1941
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| Died | October 13, 2006
(64 years)
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| Contributor | *crickets chirp* |
| Last Modifed | David
Oct 19, 2021 12:03pm |
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| Info | Deborah D. Tamar Blumer
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
DEBORAH D. BLUMER
State House
Room 134
State House
Boston, MA 02133
Telephone: 617-722-2400
Facsimile: 617-626-0114
District Office
7 Ledgewood Road
Framingham, MA 01701
Telephone: 508-879-0658
Email: Deborah.Blumer@state.ma.us Debby@DebbyBlumer.org
Party Affiliation - DEMOCRAT
Representative's Home Page [Link]
DISTRICT REPRESENTED: Sixth Middlesex. - Consisting of precincts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14 and 17, of the town of Framingham, in the county of Middlesex.
EDUCATION: Framingham State College, B.S. (Magna Cum Laude); Simmons College Graduate School of Management, M.B.A. (with distinctions).
PROFESSION: Legislator.
ORGANIZATIONS: Metrowest Community Health Care Foundation (Trustee and former Chairperson); Framingham League of Women Voters (former Director); Framingham Civic League; Friends of Saxonville; Framingham Education Foundation; Danforth Museum of Art (former Trustee); Pheasant Hill Civic Club.
PUBLIC OFFICE: Framingham Finance Committee (11 years)(Chairperson); Town Meeting Member (Chairperson); Ways & Means Committee (3 years)(Chairperson); Personnel Board; Community Development Block Grant Committee; School Capital Planning Committee; Mass. House (2001-2002).
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Education and Professional Experience
Debby Blumer is the representative of Framingham in the State Legislative. She is an active member of the Elders Caucus, Children Caucus, Metrowest Caucus, Mental Health Caucus, and Women's Caucus. She serves on House Post Audit of Oversight Committee & the Local Affairs committee. Currently, she chairs an education finance subcommittee of the Education Taskforce.
Representative Debby Blumer holds a BS degree in education with a concentration in mathematics, magna cum laude, from Framingham State College and an MBA with Distinction from Simmons College Graduate School of Management.
She worked in state government for five years as a Mediator and Hearing Officer/Arbitrator for the Massachusetts Department of Education. Division of Special Education and as a Staff Assistant to the Chancellor of the Massachusetts State College System. As a Mediator and Hearing Officer, Debby worked to resolved disagreements between parents and school systems on special education programs for students and provide workshops for school systems on due process rights and procedures under Chapter 766 and related federal laws.
After receiving her MBA, Debby worked for 18years in the technology industry for three major worldwide companies: Honeywell-Bull Information Systems, Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq Computer Corporation. Working in the area of new product introduction and phase-downs for manufacturing and fields service materials and logistics, she managed staffs as large as 100 people, $6 Million operating budgets, and worldwide project teams involved with $2 billion products. In addition to working with several plants located in various parts of Massachusetts, she has worked with overseas on special assignment in Beijing and Hong Kong managing an international logistics team as part of the installation and maintenance of computer systems in Chinese universities.
Community Leadership and Results
Debby Blumer is a 35-year homeowner and community activist in Framingham.
She is a founding trustee and chair of the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation. With an endowment of $46 million from the proceeds of the conversion from non-profit to profit of Metrowest Medical Center (Framingham Union Hospital and Leonard Morse Hospital), the foundation provides grants to improve the health status of the 25 towns and cities in the Metrowest region. In its first year, the foundation funded $700,000 in projects and will fund $1.8 million in 2001.
An 11-year member and then chair of the town's Finance Committee, Debby helped steer the way through the major recession of the late 80's/early 90's, minimizing job losses and maintaining services. When the need for an operating override was clear, Debby helped organized campaigns and gain voter approval of $4.3 million permanent operating override. Recently, Debby was a founder of Citizens for a Strong Framingham, the political campaign that gained voter approval of $54 million debt exclusion for renovation and expansion of Framingham High School.
An elected member of two charter commissions, Debby chaired one commission and wrote a charter that proposed streamlining government and instituting a strong Town Manager and Chief Financial Officer. Subsequently, voters adopted these major reforms, A 15-year elected member of Town Meeting, Debby is currently chair of her precinct and a member of the Ways and Means Committee. In the past she served as a member of Framingham', Personnel Board, School Capital Planning Committee among other assignments. She recently volunteered to serve as a member of an open space planning and acquisition committee.
A former director of the Framingham League of Women Voters, Debby is a member of the State League study of the Education Reform Act. She was recently asked to join the Chamber of Commerce Task Force on Workforce Development and Training based on her professional and community work.
She was a founder of the second day care center in Framingham, more than 25 years ago, as well as school volunteers program in partnership with Framingham State College, the Callahan Senior Center, parents in the community and the reading and curriculum specialists in the Framingham Public Schools. The program trained over 100 reading and math tutors to work with elementary school children. She was a member of the region's Office for Children Council and a founding member of Big Brother-Big Sister of South Middlesex.
Debby was also a founder of the Danforth Museum of Art and co-children its 25th anniversary celebrations this years.
Family and Personal
Debby grew up in Chelsea and Winthrop, Massachusetts. She is married to Irwin Blumer, who is a graduate school professor and department chair in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and former superintendent of schools for Concord Public Schools, Concord-Carlisle Regional High School, and Newton Public Schools. The Blumer have three children, two of whom are teachers, and two grandchildren. One of their children is risk manager for a major national retailer.
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