Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Fiscal Year 1998 Budget

SECTION 3 (Local Aid)


Section 3 (Local Aid)


SECTION 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, except for section 12B of chapter 76 of the General Laws and section 89 of chapter 71 of the General Laws, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, the distribution to cities and towns of the balance of the State Lottery Fund, as paid by the treasurer from the Local Aid Fund in accordance with the provisions of clause (c) of the second paragraph of section 35 of chapter 10 of the General Laws, shall be $539,665,201 and shall be apportioned to the cities and towns in accordance with this section; provided, that the amount of any balance in the State Lottery Fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be transferred to the Local Aid Fund; provided, further, that the total amount of lottery distribution in fiscal year 1997 shall be considered "general revenue sharing aid received in the prior fiscal year" for purposes of calculating the municipal revenue growth factor pursuant to the provisions of chapter 70 of the General Laws; provided further, that the entire amount of the distribution made by this section shall be exempt from the provisions of section 5 of said chapter 70.

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, except for section 12B of chapter 76 of the General Laws and section 89 of chapter 71 of the General Laws, the total amounts to be distributed and paid to each city, town, regional school district and county maintaining an agricultural school from items 0611-5500 and 7061-0008 of section 2 shall be as set forth in the following lists; provided, that the specified amounts to be distributed from item 7061-0008 of said section 2 are hereby deemed to be in full satisfaction of the amounts due under the provisions of sections 3, 6 and 7 of chapter 70 of the General Laws; provided further, that the amounts to be distributed from item 0611-5500 of said section 2 are hereby deemed to be in full satisfaction of the amounts due under section 37 of chapter 21 of the General Laws. No payments to cities, towns, or counties maintaining an agricultural school pursuant to this section shall be made after November 30 of the fiscal year by the state treasurer until he receives certification from the commissioner of revenue of said commissioner's acceptance of the prior fiscal year's annual financial reports submitted pursuant to the provisions of section 43 of chapter 44 of the General Laws.



7061-0008 0611-5500
Chapter 70 Additional Lottery
Municipality School Aid Assistance Distribution
Abington 5,202,246 1,463,544
Acton 1,303,732 37,368 998,126
Acushnet 3,907,763 30,043 1,128,174
Adams 44,096 1,504,657
Agawam 9,216,376 2,690,888
Alford 11,503
Amesbury 8,040,138 1,468,549
Amherst 4,890,008 280,503 5,658,008
Andover 3,245,005 1,278,344
Arlington 3,828,648 5,652,310 3,299,659
Ashburnham 462,692
Ashby 279,276
Ashfield 64,595 114,248
Ashland 1,258,913 366,937 697,116
Athol 5,507 1,525,265
Attleboro 18,137,050 3,914,570
Auburn 3,069,295 1,199,266
Avon 395,340 504,148 304,657
Ayer 3,817,598 55,642 567,470
Barnstable 3,317,200 1,325,332
Barre 7,526 546,095
Becket 11,481 10,797 55,813
Bedford 1,192,555 609,391 550,420
Belchertown 6,161,214 1,059,081
Bellingham 5,766,362 1,417,501
Belmont 1,868,994 1,041,278 1,327,042
Berkley 2,696,700 368,347
Berlin 325,854 171,688
Bernardston 178,262
Beverly 5,009,361 3,086,077 2,903,592
Billerica 10,956,910 2,956,313 2,944,075
Blackstone 23,174 928,567
Blandford 85,751
Bolton 133,739
Boston 144,231,951 206,638,214 45,657,646
Bourne 2,205,575 443,645 789,882
Boxborough 209,610 167,714
Boxford 421,731 45,818 286,030
Boylston 251,070 248,263
Braintree 3,029,287 4,250,822 2,348,545
Brewster 353,734 243,592
Bridgewater 53,982 2,170,412
Brimfield 830,466 252,694
Brockton 75,875,295 5,424,063 12,286,449
Brookfield 1,281,488 346,673
Brookline 3,120,338 4,401,448 2,927,472
Buckland 195,952
Burlington 2,510,308 1,744,603 1,109,563
Cambridge 4,687,819 22,595,349 5,998,617
Canton 1,657,849 1,104,851 1,011,358
Carlisle 348,356 18,534 150,919
Carver 6,914,309 961,655
Charlemont 42,916 109,238
Charlton 893,478
Chatham 246,580 116,574
Chelmsford 4,954,782 3,190,395 2,241,444
Chelsea 28,761,762 4,274,507 3,763,173
Cheshire 114,700 375,418
Chester 115,960
Chesterfield 49,712 84,392
Chicopee 27,623,443 1,504,526 6,984,956
Chilmark 2,626
Clarksburg 958,722 16,502 269,116
Clinton 6,615,128 220,865 1,552,628
Cohasset 805,459 209,013 318,275
Colrain 152,703
Concord 972,198 483,163 697,218
Conway 417,446 116,543
Cummington 26,877 51,336
Dalton 276,890 707,607
Danvers 2,130,691 1,408,080 1,446,452
Dartmouth 5,500,012 1,813,655
Dedham 2,129,546 1,950,847 1,620,155
Deerfield 476,434 348,322
Dennis 359,968
Dighton 494,548
Douglas 3,481,695 451,335
Dover 161,064 150,834
Dracut 10,034,716 2,381,511
Dudley 1,051,551
Dunstable 37,846 127,515
Duxbury 1,772,672 664,382
East Bridgewater 6,854,737 1,031,601
East Brookfield 9,285 206,696
East Longmeadow 2,696,606 961,763
Eastham 139,280 94,575
Easthampton 6,622,292 137,004 1,945,775
Easton 4,947,229 1,526,909
Edgartown 186,573 35,873 29,765
Egremont 50,218
Erving 182,463 16,548 41,892
Essex 452,194 42,569 169,608
Everett 9,599,986 5,139,628 2,429,264
Fairhaven 5,283,842 492,569 1,481,705
Fall River 68,368,262 2,882,862 16,788,727
Falmouth 2,988,529 919,092
Fitchburg 25,481,119 270,312 5,688,904
Florida 408,264 35,112
Foxborough 4,616,407 1,137,951
Framingham 4,875,667 5,911,189 4,480,017
Franklin 10,730,831 1,743,541
Freetown 733,726 668,166
Gardner 10,683,056 151,944 2,718,039
Gay Head 1,624
Georgetown 1,981,782 66,691 494,771
Gill 146,558
Gloucester 3,465,642 2,419,911 1,853,268
Goshen 2,250 47,814
Gosnold 1,375 2,469 352
Grafton 3,392,645 1,102,015
Granby 2,142,288 606,969
Granville 512,544 99,035
Great Barrington 580,222
Greenfield 8,041,806 2,199,712
Groton 502,892
Groveland 490,085
Hadley 363,847 174,084 229,120
Halifax 1,816,455 659,032
Hamilton 53,967 453,452
Hampden 439,163
Hancock 47,415 22,195 31,728
Hanover 2,424,176 1,669,092 773,625
Hanson 921,087
Hardwick 75,087 4,062 280,167
Harvard 830,993 69,324 1,429,590
Harwich 788,922 286,231
Hatfield 444,259 237,251
Haverhill 27,313,812 3,149,881 5,395,732
Hawley 12,853 16,264 18,949
Heath 39,467
Hingham 2,313,347 420,485 1,037,888
Hinsdale 33,772 147,895
Holbrook 3,581,893 5,987 1,127,248
Holden 1,181,073
Holland 415,712 120,408
Holliston 4,279,884 518,826 906,682
Holyoke 50,932,268 763,384 6,781,727
Hopedale 2,626,634 439,951
Hopkinton 1,484,946 151,365 446,933
Hubbardston 205,065
Hudson 4,821,759 1,527,831
Hull 3,423,683 1,747,307 799,971
Huntington 217,645
Ipswich 1,273,809 975,780 760,203
Kingston 1,887,392 635,060
Lakeville 1,215,878 535,664
Lancaster 651,606
Lanesborough 440,131 283,593
Lawrence 79,628,984 239,970 11,754,336
Lee 1,284,378 520,321
Leicester 5,371,849 1,237,139
Lenox 963,092 90,787 450,160
Leominster 21,078,158 14,714 3,744,722
Leverett 214,865 120,975
Lexington 3,173,856 1,192,808
Leyden 46,318
Lincoln 262,080 367,459 356,504
Littleton 773,802 207,535 404,577
Longmeadow 2,546,088 1,016,517
Lowell 80,149,845 7,978,998 12,849,286
Ludlow 7,688,864 2,039,460
Lunenburg 2,580,063 774,884
Lynn 66,801,757 11,926,220 9,810,066
Lynnfield 1,169,700 455,892 564,778
Malden 15,436,062 7,030,168 6,107,500
Manchester 479,998 189,239
Mansfield 5,119,268 912,368 1,008,018
Marblehead 1,544,894 49,583 862,343
Marion 170,230 151,088
Marlborough 2,930,876 3,433,241 2,318,842
Marshfield 8,212,720 255,142 1,526,812
Mashpee 1,118,937 155,890
Mattapoisett 282,718 305,841
Maynard 1,498,383 738,519 825,258
Medfield 1,318,499 937,000 649,616
Medford 10,027,171 8,094,393 5,420,348
Medway 3,395,615 235,317 707,727
Melrose 4,326,793 3,402,865 2,373,565
Mendon 262,921
Merrimac 543,168
Methuen 16,548,107 205,147 3,640,879
Middleborough 11,900,078 1,737,497
Middlefield 30,561
Middleton 332,062 159,272 247,812
Milford 9,216,081 2,291,071
Millbury 4,009,532 1,279,844
Millis 1,414,864 403,862 568,639
Millville 5,305 244,250
Milton 1,973,889 1,566,851 1,743,749
Monroe 13,948 17,526 6,115
Monson 4,476,688 922,077
Montague 874,149
Monterey 15,777 28,865
Montgomery 59,666
Mount Washington 6,391 41,886 2,269
Nahant 246,129 157,791 221,358
Nantucket 395,010 52,369
Natick 2,642,789 2,444,348 1,764,270
Needham 2,371,248 259,216 1,196,813
New Ashford 11,920 9,203 5,872
New Bedford 75,944,564 901,313 16,993,220
New Braintree 74,800
New Marlborough 39,318
New Salem 65,997
Newbury 325,066
Newburyport 2,380,390 1,736,621 1,171,203
Newton 6,170,866 1,732,789 3,868,620
Norfolk 2,005,616 646,616
North Adams 11,364,810 233,872 3,242,162
North Andover 2,450,537 151,695 1,323,273
North Attleborough 9,461,765 2,095,317
North Brookfield 3,089,278 573,673
North Reading 1,628,323 1,189,787 778,947
Northampton 5,967,203 727,239 2,973,895
Northborough 1,522,779 76,900 754,078
Northbridge 8,170,545 3,865 1,658,116
Northfield 203,738
Norton 6,842,591 1,499,756
Norwell 1,266,854 680,878 499,530
Norwood 2,382,102 3,354,660 1,898,152
Oak Bluffs 145,135 47,608
Oakham 26,842 109,151
Orange 4,615,352 2,661 1,152,627
Orleans 123,815 125,719
Otis 21,448
Oxford 6,510,802 1,527,178
Palmer 6,491,026 1,362,105
Paxton 5,075 320,427
Peabody 10,011,785 3,951,625 3,638,439
Pelham 64,150 101,505
Pembroke 3,721,852 1,195,697
Pepperell 882,228
Peru 37,816 74,955
Petersham 136,255 73,984
Phillipston 5,519 97,624
Pittsfield 23,191,595 1,107,722 5,700,639
Plainfield 11,696 28,071
Plainville 1,011,171 514,694
Plymouth 14,682,650 2,438,738
Plympton 452,865 161,077
Princeton 208,124
Provincetown 184,480 27,912 106,915
Quincy 10,284,564 14,555,556 7,411,021
Randolph 7,840,293 2,297,597 2,606,303
Raynham 375 823,707
Reading 3,439,540 1,931,472 1,564,728
Rehoboth 656,294
Revere 16,860,870 6,712,698 4,227,558
Richmond 253,978 86,178
Rochester 516,350 288,586
Rockland 7,826,924 496,221 1,728,981
Rockport 720,841 316,174
Rowe 25,065 2,731
Rowley 143,746 309,075
Royalston 94,943
Russell 156,645
Rutland 556,341
Salem 8,047,790 4,151,021 2,831,878
Salisbury 442,591
Sandisfield 22,876
Sandwich 2,577,930 111,247 532,562
Saugus 2,579,206 2,245,040 1,630,002
Savoy 276,028 17,367 73,628
Scituate 2,154,299 1,101,119 1,062,545
Seekonk 2,410,392 888,214
Sharon 2,827,579 78,642 985,235
Sheffield 15,023 159,541
Shelburne 191,564
Sherborn 188,746 26,364 156,848
Shirley 2,663,262 233,500 726,173
Shrewsbury 4,349,972 376,077 1,709,842
Shutesbury 395,175 95,739
Somerset 1,604,703 996,989
Somerville 19,806,676 20,410,649 8,981,563
South Hadley 4,871,460 25,437 1,811,534
Southampton 954,884 405,083
Southborough 547,898 308,298
Southbridge 11,621,344 2,382,795
Southwick 808,769
Spencer 100,895 1,473,434
Springfield 146,358,953 2,302,181 22,529,384
Sterling 478,483
Stockbridge 80,305
Stoneham 1,694,734 2,553,177 1,581,869
Stoughton 7,034,058 129,781 2,409,811
Stow 8,776 295,085
Sturbridge 823,688 497,896
Sudbury 1,196,330 807,321 670,965
Sunderland 472,044 324,829
Sutton 2,530,603 547,832
Swampscott 1,262,704 443,359 729,708
Swansea 3,769,339 1,426,343
Taunton 26,713,960 6,529,694
Templeton 854,396
Tewksbury 7,835,954 2,123,701
Tisbury 155,135 73,626
Tolland 12,413 3,848
Topsfield 283,885 318,725 306,845
Townsend 789,637
Truro 117,926 20,940
Tyngsborough 3,906,217 594,375
Tyringham 14,000 10,007
Upton 364,307
Uxbridge 4,816,284 1,021,731
Wakefield 3,052,593 1,809,635 1,757,327
Wales 567,855 161,261
Walpole 3,474,413 1,112,115 1,343,268
Waltham 4,552,101 6,869,270 3,984,641
Ware 4,850,928 19,199 1,179,571
Wareham 8,753,960 1,524,106
Warren 504,423
Warwick 36,354 51,247
Washington 13,748 29,889 49,105
Watertown 1,670,112 5,571,114 2,245,554
Wayland 1,445,599 352,813 528,395
Webster 6,051,454 78,026 1,668,642
Wellesley 1,883,969 121,858 1,025,654
Wellfleet 73,915 43,920
Wendell 32,131 83,263
Wenham 175,913 229,679
West Boylston 979,661 85,259 475,326
West Bridgewater 1,442,475 59,411 470,152
West Brookfield 315,256
West Newbury 210,035
West Springfield 9,244,465 2,331,363
West Stockbridge 79,666
West Tisbury 229,569 20,252
Westborough 1,593,237 182,536 722,880
Westfield 21,437,874 4,267,923
Westford 2,852,538 1,126,887 963,767
Westhampton 179,179 94,272
Westminster 412,631
Weston 716,783 306,004
Westport 2,473,332 977,713
Westwood 1,312,677 45,632 544,522
Weymouth 14,763,458 3,050,391 5,394,709
Whately 59,458 89,910
Whitman 1,565,934
Wilbraham 900,479
Williamsburg 283,745 227,239
Williamstown 780,285 726,696
Wilmington 2,150,679 1,578,564 981,141
Winchendon 7,800,696 31,919 1,089,766
Winchester 2,102,110 433,387 972,263
Windsor 2,282 35,260 43,510
Winthrop 3,608,636 2,878,558 1,911,612
Woburn 3,009,920 4,513,710 2,304,039
Worcester 102,394,910 14,860,192 21,282,762
Worthington 75,535
Wrentham 2,609,398 715,946
Yarmouth 802,331
Total Aid to Regional Schools 401,134,975
(see itemization below)
Total 2,288,742,702 476,315,282 539,665,201


REGIONAL Chapter 70
SCHOOL DISTRICT 7061-0008
Acton Boxborough 2,244,542
Adams Cheshire 7,325,670
Amherst Pelham 6,281,307
Ashburnham Westminster 6,845,795
Assabet Valley 2,717,313
Athol Royalston 12,032,447
Berkshire Hills 2,569,940
Berlin Boylston 708,609
Blackstone Millville 7,587,626
Blackstone Valley 4,684,917
Blue Hills 3,153,421
Bridgewater Raynham 15,209,194
Bristol County 1,271,653
Bristol Plymouth 4,132,389
Cape Cod 1,677,281
Central Berkshire 6,034,653
Chesterfield Goshen 465,197
Concord Carlisle 1,231,758
Dennis Yarmouth 5,175,458
Dighton Rehoboth 7,698,615
Dover Sherborn 931,645
Dudley Charlton 12,067,166
Essex County 3,430,130
Farmington River 283,088
Franklin County 1,879,962
Freetown Lakeville 4,432,109
Frontier 959,166
Gateway 5,763,752
Gill Montague 5,198,747
Greater Fall River 8,713,956
Greater Lawrence 10,188,622
Greater Lowell 13,328,887
Greater New Bedford 13,292,907
Groton Dunstable 4,647,946
Hamilton Wenham 2,451,748
Hampden Wilbraham 6,874,852
Hampshire 1,586,817
Hawlemont 511,931
King Philip 3,615,433
Lincoln Sudbury 1,497,152
Ralph C. Mahar 3,084,543
Marthas Vineyard 625,765
Masconomet 1,877,444
Mendon Upton 3,254,956
Minuteman 2,205,353
Mohawk Trail 5,986,951
Montachusett 5,481,754
Mount Greylock 1,686,980
Narragansett 5,822,883
Nashoba 4,754,244
Nashoba Valley 1,959,378
Nauset 2,703,502
New Salem Wendell 675,060
Norfolk County 640,116
North Middlesex 16,099,431
North Shore 1,321,783
Northhampton Smith 777,192
Northboro Southboro 1,254,844
Northeast Metropolitan 5,045,476
Northern Berkshire 2,593,902
Old Colony 1,944,315
Old Rochester 1,272,251
Pathfinder 1,898,802
Pentucket 8,698,995
Pioneer 3,020,362
Quabbin 9,991,431
Quaboag 6,369,870
Shawsheen Valley 3,122,286
Silver Lake 7,645,116
South Middlesex 2,297,247
South Shore 1,811,192
Southeastern 7,319,578
Southern Berkshire 1,491,657
Southern Worcester 4,167,719
Southwick Tolland 5,591,827
Spencer East Brookfield 9,645,416
Tantasqua 4,041,276
Tri County 2,714,405
Triton 6,472,036
Up-Island 722,979
Upper Cape Cod 1,353,890
Wachusett 13,857,295
Whitman Hanson 15,646,317
Whittier 4,458,404
Worcester Trade 7,024,951
Regional Total 401,134,975

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