| Account | Description | FY2018 Spending |
FY2019 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7003-1206 | Massachusetts Service Alliance For the Massachusetts Service Alliance, Inc. to administer state service corps grants and provide training and support to volunteer and service organizations; provided, that not less than $400,000 shall be expended for the Urban League of Springfield, Inc.; provided further, that not less than $80,000 shall be expended to the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth for transportation costs related to the America Reads/Counts program; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to the SPARK program operated by the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce; provided further, that $125,000 shall be expended for the Moving Ahead Program at the St. Francis House in Boston; provided further, that not less than $400,000 shall be expended for the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts, Inc.; provided further, that not less than $250,000 shall be expended to the Innovation Venture Fund at Umass Lowell for the continued implementation of a business development grant program; provided further, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to the town of Chelmsford to create a business development grant program; provided further, that not less than $75,000 shall be expended for the creation of a domestic violence outreach coordinator position within the Cape Verdean Association of Brockton; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for Cape Verdean Community UNIDO, Inc. to support outreach to immigrants in the Roxbury and Dorchester areas of Boston; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for the Haitian American Business Expo, Inc. / U.S. Haitian Chamber of Commerce, Inc. for hiring staff to assist in its' non-profit mission of assisting Haitian American businesses through technical and business plan assistance; provided further, that not less than $100,000 shall be expended for Building Pathways, Inc. in Boston; provided further, that not less than $15,000 shall be expended for financial assistance for qualified seniors in the city of Newton to receive the services of Newton At Home, Inc.; provided, that not less than $50,000 shall be expended to CONNECT, a financial opportunity center in the city of Chelsea; provided further, that $25,000 shall be expended for the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee, Inc; and provided further, that no less than $20,000 be expended for La Feria Internacional del Libro en Lawrence in the City of Lawrence for the purpose of assisting literacy and promoting reading in the greater Lawrence community through advocacy, programming, and the annual Lawrence International Book Festival |
3,067,250 | 3,240,000 |
Veto Explanation: I am striking language which earmarks funding for a program not recommended. The reduction in the item incorporates the amount of the stricken earmarked funds.