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Symposium “Who pays for Local Government” on October 13, 2007

October 7, 2007 By AmberPaw

Phone number for phone registration or questions:  617 523 2999; e-mail address for questions:  lwvma@lwvma.org

The League Fiscal Policy Update Committee states that According to the Mass Taxpayers Foundation, local aid [so-called] is about $700,000,000.00 less than it was in 2002.  All costs, however, have increased – especially health care for employees.  Virtually all of Massachusetts cities and towns face long-term financial stresses.  The cities and towns in our state are trapped by a convergence of four factors:  1)limitations imposed by Proposition 2 and 1/2;  unfunded mandates demanded by the states landmark Education Reform Act of 1993; rising employee health insurance costs, and cuts in state funded local aid.

This League Fall Conference appears to be a rare opportunity to gain insight as to the Administration’s thinking as next year’s budget is being created run by a nonpartisan group.

  [disclosure – I personally consider local aid a partial “return of capital” since these state funds originate from taxes and fees paid by citizens and other residents who all live somewhere in our Commonwealth]

Cross posted at Red Mass Group.

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Comments

  1. peter-porcupine says

    October 10, 2007 at 11:24 am

    Amber – this got pushed ‘below the fold’ quickly.  Since it hasn’t been front-paged, I’d suggest adding it as an event on the side bar as well.

    • amberpaw says

      October 12, 2007 at 5:33 pm

      You notice I posted it on Red Mass Group, too.  I think civic education has to be “on both sides of the aisle”

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