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15990026 - Municipal Regionalization and Efficiencies Incentive Reserve
Data Current as of:  10/17/2014





Account Description FY2014
Spending
FY2015
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1599-0026 Municipal Regionalization and Efficiencies Incentive Reserve
For a reserve for 1-time grants to support municipal improvements; provided, that not less than $2,800,000 shall be expended to fund the District Local Technical Assistance Fund, established in section 2XXX of chapter 29 of the General Laws, including projects that encourage regionalization, to be administered by the division of local services and distributed through the District Local Technical Assistance Fund; provided further, that $20,000 shall be expended to the Cape Cod Mosquito Control Project to conduct a study to determine a basis for separation from the state reclamation board to an independent agency on Cape Cod; provided further, that not less than $120,000 shall be granted to the town of Canton; provided further, that not less than $500,000 shall be expended to mitigate student overcrowding in the city of Haverhill; provided further, that not less than $240,000 shall be expended for a 1-time grant to the city of Quincy; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended for the costs associated with the technological upgrades for the Westford public school district; provided further, that not less than $3,000,000 shall be expended for a multi-year competitive grant program to provide financial support for 1-time or transition costs related to regionalization and other efficiency initiatives, with allowable applicants to include municipalities, regional school districts, school districts considering forming a regional school district or regionalizing services, regional planning agencies and councils of governments; provided further, that funds may be expended by the Edward J. Collins, Jr. Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts at Boston's John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies to develop and effectuate a program of performance management, accountability and transparency for local governments; provided further, that funds may be expended to expand programs that received funding from this item in prior fiscal years and on programs with proven replicable outcomes for municipalities; provided further, that the executive office for administration and finance shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means not later than March 13, 2015 on: (i) results to date of grants awarded in fiscal year 2015 and in prior fiscal years; and (ii) replicable outcome measures for projects awarded to date; provided further, that $4,250,000 shall be transferred to the executive office of public safety and security for a competitive grant program for public safety and emergency staffing to be administered by that executive office; provided further, that the grants shall be awarded to communities that: (A) have populations of at least 60,000; and (B) demonstrate that their police departments had an operating budget per capita of less than $200 in 2010; provided further, that each state entity administering grant funds through this item shall submit a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means, not later than February 13, 2015, detailing grants awarded through this item and the criteria used for distribution; provided further, that $75,000 shall be expended for the restoration of the 1-room school house in the town of Petersham; provided further, that not less than $325,000 shall be expended for the restoration of Perry Auditorium at Gardner City Hall; provided further, that $300,000 shall be expended to reimburse the town of Milton for funds expended pursuant to chapter 349 of the acts of 2010; provided further, that $250,000 shall be expended for the restoration, renovation, improvement and expansion of critical historical, educational and community resources in the historic Easton town center; provided further, that not less than $200,000 shall be expended for the Mother Brook Arts and Community Center in the town of Dedham; provided further, that $750,000 shall be expended as a 1-time grant to the city of North Adams to backfill forgone payments in lieu of taxes, sewer, water and other fees not paid by Northern Berkshire Healthcare, Inc. and for other extraordinary costs related to the closure of a certain hospital in the town of North Adams; provided further, that $100,000 shall be expended to the police department of the town of Plymouth for the creation of a street crime unit with the mission of disrupting and dismantling street level drug trade, open air drug dealing and distribution and crimes related to the use or trade of illegal drugs in the town of Plymouth and surrounding communities; provided further, that $40,000 shall be expended for the police department of the town of Barnstable to continue a street crime unit with the mission of disrupting and dismantling street level drug trade, open air drug dealing and distribution and crimes related to the use or trade of illegal drugs in the town of Barnstable and surrounding communities; and provided further, that not less than $170,000 shall be expended to the town of Plymouth for revising and updating its Radiological Response and Recovery Plan

12,852,905 13,240,000

Veto Explanation:   I am striking language which earmarks funding for programs not recommended. The reduction in the item incorporates the amount of the stricken earmarked funds.