Governor Deval Patrick will tommorow announce that he will not cut Chapter 70 school aid as part of the overall cuts to local aid that he will announce. That news, while good for schools throughout the Commonwealth, will mean that the entire brunt of the cuts will be against Police, Fire, and D.P.W. services from the City side of government. And whatever that overall number is going to be is still unknown to localities, as the Governor has yet to notify us of the number, and has yet to state what formula will be used to allocate the cuts between communities. He will be speaking tommorow morning before the MMA where he will inform us that Chapter 70 will be spared. We are hopeful that he will also tell us what the number will be so that we can begin to make the cuts that will be necessitated by his action.
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Your Honor,
This is unnecessary. I believe there is enough fat and sacrificial meat in the state budget to make local cuts minimal. Now you get to be the bad guy and fire the locals, while the governor gets to preserve programs to influence his friends.
There is deflation going on. The state budget needs deflation also.
We are going through this again in the next cycle.
Good luck. Your buddies aren’t helping.
Jules
Jules
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well if the Governor level funds school aid..then the budget for next year should be the same as this year…is the Superintendant ready for that?????!!!!!!
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