Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Fiscal Year 1999 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, 1999, 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 $597,453,642 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 1998 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 5,422,022   1,606,938
Acton 1,533,103 37,368 1,099,999
Acushnet 4,231,990 30,043 1,230,227
Adams   44,096 1,627,785
Agawam 10,049,037   2,935,548
Alford     12,434
Amesbury 8,389,816   1,617,821
Amherst 5,234,242 280,503 6,232,479
Andover 3,788,917   1,426,919
Arlington 4,220,448 5,652,310 3,603,324
Ashburnham     518,825
Ashby     310,987
Ashfield 97,877   126,783
Ashland 1,622,183 366,937 785,726
Athol   5,507 1,688,934
Attleboro 20,477,942   4,344,086
Auburn 3,293,295   1,322,033
Avon 452,140 504,148 329,682
Ayer 3,940,098 55,642 614,746
Barnstable 4,034,668   1,514,592
Barre 7,626   603,815
Becket 19,991 10,797 61,074
Bedford 1,388,955 609,391 619,576
Belchertown 6,572,896   1,172,347
Bellingham 6,559,108   1,537,983
Belmont 2,194,694 1,041,278 1,443,242
Berkley 3,477,608   413,580
Berlin 346,954   185,515
Bernardston     198,295
Beverly 5,571,302 3,086,077 3,204,539
Billerica 11,953,374 2,956,313 3,271,089
Blackstone 55,397   1,024,718
Blandford     93,142
Bolton     147,384
Boston 176,446,515 206,638,214 50,455,659
Bourne 2,605,266 443,645 892,053
Boxborough 301,286   186,514
Boxford 543,877 45,818 332,169
Boylston 286,586   274,193
Braintree 3,502,119 4,250,822 2,583,806
Brewster 444,101   279,912
Bridgewater 55,582   2,439,466
Brimfield 888,869   278,817
Brockton 83,922,521 5,424,063 13,736,192
Brookfield 1,344,301   380,002
Brookline 3,673,938 4,401,448 3,204,988
Buckland     213,232
Burlington 2,869,108 1,744,603 1,238,335
Cambridge 5,491,819 22,595,349 6,551,318
Canton 1,926,249 1,104,851 1,129,448
Carlisle 415,456 18,534 168,494
Carver 7,847,997   1,085,935
Charlemont 56,674   121,524
Charlton     984,696
Chatham 304,480   130,698
Chelmsford 5,341,877 3,190,395 2,493,224
Chelsea 32,291,673 4,274,507 4,211,615
Cheshire 107,929   413,370
Chester     127,529
Chesterfield 54,701   94,076
Chicopee 31,279,111 1,504,526 7,692,228
Chilmark     2,962
Clarksburg 1,076,476 16,502 292,036
Clinton 7,900,531 220,865 1,712,570
Cohasset 921,759 209,013 346,166
Colrain     169,929
Concord 1,154,598 483,163 763,836
Conway 483,674   127,775
Cummington 28,158   56,271
Dalton 277,790   778,047
Danvers 2,497,191 1,408,080 1,582,452
Dartmouth 5,720,348   1,997,834
Dedham 2,410,146 1,950,847 1,780,162
Deerfield 604,419   382,924
Dennis     406,622
Dighton     547,125
Douglas 4,040,457   506,319
Dover 212,264   165,670
Dracut 11,383,377   2,681,216
Dudley     1,166,290
Dunstable   37,846 143,839
Duxbury 2,054,272   740,847
East Bridgewater 7,723,120   1,144,846
East Brookfield 10,685   224,115
East Longmeadow 2,750,419   1,057,629
Eastham 175,080   107,656
Easthampton 6,720,608 137,004 2,126,757
Easton 5,408,450   1,697,866
Edgartown 231,673 35,873 34,610
Egremont     54,200
Erving 207,263 16,548 48,192
Essex 604,129 42,569 186,587
Everett 11,888,058 5,139,628 2,708,434
Fairhaven 5,995,363 492,569 1,622,177
Fall River 73,929,670 2,882,862 18,191,709
Falmouth 3,323,992   1,041,572
Fitchburg 28,432,948 270,312 6,333,005
Florida 469,975   39,712
Foxborough 5,233,794   1,251,052
Framingham 5,645,028 5,911,189 4,983,227
Franklin 13,292,419   1,936,628
Freetown 789,226   744,351
Gardner 13,234,334 151,944 3,039,507
Gay Head     1,756
Georgetown 2,107,583 66,691 545,417
Gill     163,843
Gloucester 4,728,100 2,419,911 2,048,937
Goshen 2,550   53,300
Gosnold 1,875 2,469 400
Grafton 3,965,879   1,224,996
Granby 2,346,412   662,926
Granville 559,487   108,747
Great Barrington     632,294
Greenfield 8,377,816   2,416,737
Groton     563,891
Groveland     537,293
Hadley 432,813 174,084 254,034
Halifax 2,043,044   726,241
Hamilton   53,967 496,629
Hampden     477,053
Hancock 55,415 22,195 33,588
Hanover 2,858,623 1,669,092 851,947
Hanson     1,009,281
Hardwick 132,016 4,062 306,146
Harvard 931,093 69,324 1,552,083
Harwich 1,018,110   323,924
Hatfield 494,984   256,229
Haverhill 29,866,084 3,149,881 6,052,164
Hawley 12,853 16,264 21,229
Heath     45,131
Hingham 2,637,247 420,485 1,135,043
Hinsdale 34,172   163,007
Holbrook 3,905,484 5,987 1,242,508
Holden 24,864   1,306,845
Holland 626,030   134,741
Holliston 4,746,949 518,826 999,138
Holyoke 56,463,750 763,384 7,514,082
Hopedale 3,010,045   495,237
Hopkinton 1,713,846 151,365 500,820
Hubbardston     235,298
Hudson 5,069,659   1,680,012
Hull 3,858,461 1,747,307 884,535
Huntington     240,213
Ipswich 1,454,909 975,780 833,725
Kingston 2,122,487   710,067
Lakeville 1,582,244   594,063
Lancaster     715,848
Lanesborough 467,631   302,496
Lawrence 87,543,238 239,970 13,767,584
Lee 1,365,178   561,022
Leicester 6,597,974   1,365,896
Lenox 1,033,192 90,787 476,408
Leominster 24,129,589 14,714 4,176,359
Leverett 182,213   135,043
Lexington 3,685,356   1,305,480
Leyden     52,527
Lincoln 316,680 367,459 392,117
Littleton 901,102 207,535 449,607
Longmeadow 2,828,988   1,105,106
Lowell 89,392,188 7,978,998 14,692,086
Ludlow 8,127,820   2,222,343
Lunenburg 2,646,045   857,819
Lynn 74,343,531 11,926,220 11,075,751
Lynnfield 1,345,900 455,892 620,014
Malden 16,925,261 7,030,168 6,773,321
Manchester 551,298   205,285
Mansfield 5,882,551 912,368 1,129,538
Marblehead 1,813,694 49,583 947,150
Marion 218,430   170,551
Marlborough 3,620,042 3,433,241 2,559,914
Marshfield 9,813,881 255,142 1,678,748
Mashpee 1,862,999   185,275
Mattapoisett 335,818   335,326
Maynard 1,865,425 738,519 912,472
Medfield 1,560,099 937,000 710,080
Medford 10,537,816 8,094,393 5,950,012
Medway 4,292,860 235,317 793,029
Melrose 4,666,893 3,402,865 2,600,966
Mendon     293,316
Merrimac     599,635
Methuen 18,335,886 205,147 4,059,305
Middleborough 12,060,893   1,929,302
Middlefield     33,650
Middleton 417,509 159,272 275,122
Milford 9,615,981   2,513,775
Millbury 4,387,967   1,404,818
Millis 1,537,224 403,862 632,467
Millville 16,405   269,240
Milton 2,347,289 1,566,851 1,919,385
Monroe 27,375 17,526 6,460
Monson 4,718,986   1,002,284
Montague     959,189
Monterey   15,777 30,726
Montgomery     65,708
Mount Washington 7,491 41,886 2,518
Nahant 289,529 157,791 243,081
Nantucket 509,410   59,550
Natick 3,053,489 2,444,348 1,940,724
Needham 2,775,748 259,216 1,314,973
New Ashford 16,042 9,203 6,707
New Bedford 84,386,683 901,313 18,514,118
New Braintree     83,910
New Marlborough     43,147
New Salem     72,360
Newbury     359,211
Newburyport 2,602,390 1,736,621 1,281,904
Newton 7,200,966 1,732,789 4,214,273
Norfolk 2,277,080   729,708
North Adams 12,121,748 233,872 3,510,946
North Andover 2,842,537 151,695 1,470,810
North Attleborough 10,945,545   2,316,040
North Brookfield 3,392,546   631,723
North Reading 2,063,101 1,189,787 855,445
Northampton 6,273,507 727,239 3,244,172
Northborough 1,733,502 76,900 835,312
Northbridge 8,857,147 3,865 1,824,507
Northfield     228,453
Norton 7,936,283   1,653,407
Norwell 1,444,754 680,878 546,549
Norwood 2,736,002 3,354,660 2,082,660
Oak Bluffs 194,803   54,273
Oakham 53,045   123,666
Orange 5,045,948 2,661 1,265,706
Orleans 159,015   141,142
Otis     23,449
Oxford 7,004,588   1,680,631
Palmer 7,711,000   1,486,110
Paxton 11,521   354,437
Peabody 12,193,412 3,951,625 3,974,112
Pelham 78,450   113,467
Pembroke 4,028,923   1,322,881
Pepperell     982,940
Peru 38,116   82,262
Petersham 143,049   82,034
Phillipston   5,519 114,062
Pittsfield 26,045,981 1,107,722 6,217,312
Plainfield 14,612   31,917
Plainville 1,468,362   574,931
Plymouth 16,504,118   2,778,265
Plympton 400,132   181,359
Princeton     230,728
Provincetown 210,280 27,912 117,912
Quincy 11,369,375 14,555,556 8,188,218
Randolph 9,034,197 2,297,597 2,910,119
Raynham 375   898,457
Reading 4,213,444 1,931,472 1,715,014
Rehoboth     722,009
Revere 20,000,048 6,712,698 4,719,219
Richmond 279,778   93,531
Rochester 533,295   320,432
Rockland 8,559,000 496,221 1,908,485
Rockport 900,798   351,753
Rowe 30,865   3,185
Rowley   143,746 347,585
Royalston     106,459
Russell     172,544
Rutland 113,236   608,028
Salem 9,895,526 4,151,021 3,163,451
Salisbury     488,315
Sandisfield     24,555
Sandwich 2,938,330 111,247 635,744
Saugus 2,900,906 2,245,040 1,804,307
Savoy 303,773 17,367 80,321
Scituate 2,437,399 1,101,119 1,157,453
Seekonk 2,622,292   970,882
Sharon 3,128,579 78,642 1,089,179
Sheffield   15,023 174,154
Shelburne     208,778
Sherborn 233,446 26,364 170,101
Shirley 2,954,055 233,500 833,280
Shrewsbury 4,974,072 376,077 1,896,263
Shutesbury 438,694   108,546
Somerset 1,878,003   1,103,962
Somerville 21,346,569 20,410,649 9,923,561
South Hadley 5,141,723 25,437 1,985,516
Southampton 1,328,397   444,684
Southborough 670,463   339,497
Southbridge 11,863,229   2,660,263
Southwick     879,653
Spencer 159,724   1,618,304
Springfield 164,005,009 2,302,181 25,152,552
Sterling     530,739
Stockbridge     87,293
Stoneham 1,963,434 2,553,177 1,748,452
Stoughton 7,466,833 129,781 2,657,611
Stow   8,776 328,445
Sturbridge 879,511   560,375
Sudbury 1,444,646 807,321 729,602
Sunderland 546,896   361,640
Sutton 3,140,485   602,345
Swampscott 1,473,304 443,359 809,422
Swansea 3,993,039   1,553,215
Taunton 30,051,709   7,102,668
Templeton     944,906
Tewksbury 8,621,146   2,337,981
Tisbury 196,235   81,931
Tolland   12,413 4,314
Topsfield 360,519 318,725 339,517
Townsend     883,614
Truro 145,726   23,316
Tyngsborough 4,414,543   681,986
Tyringham 18,600   10,848
Upton     398,147
Uxbridge 6,144,829   1,127,803
Wakefield 3,388,693 1,809,635 1,928,379
Wales 586,948   176,518
Walpole 3,705,636 1,112,115 1,492,031
Waltham 5,098,201 6,869,270 4,402,048
Ware 5,357,747 19,199 1,298,256
Wareham 9,681,620   1,670,620
Warren     556,777
Warwick   36,354 58,414
Washington 13,217 29,889 53,863
Watertown 1,947,012 5,571,114 2,476,064
Wayland 1,691,299 352,813 576,176
Webster 6,391,071 78,026 1,844,522
Wellesley 2,224,969 121,858 1,113,409
Wellfleet 90,115   48,926
Wendell   32,131 93,315
Wenham   175,913 255,391
West Boylston 1,238,308 85,259 527,035
West Bridgewater 1,541,375 59,411 513,000
West Brookfield     349,258
West Newbury     231,462
West Springfield 10,363,621   2,564,911
West Stockbridge     86,538
West Tisbury   229,569 24,371
Westborough 1,899,161 182,536 798,873
Westfield 23,111,680   4,669,885
Westford 3,866,959 1,126,887 1,073,002
Westhampton 240,986   105,104
Westminster     465,266
Weston 890,283   332,057
Westport 2,651,817   1,057,762
Westwood 1,539,577 45,632 596,949
Weymouth 16,014,744 3,050,391 5,912,560
Whately 71,258   98,950
Whitman     1,730,174
Wilbraham     986,714
Williamsburg 346,959   249,759
Williamstown 832,685   789,022
Wilmington 2,477,379 1,578,564 1,092,991
Winchendon 8,242,752 31,919 1,208,289
Winchester 2,403,310 433,387 1,059,633
Windsor 3,197 35,260 48,194
Winthrop 4,121,183 2,878,558 2,090,365
Woburn 3,459,720 4,513,710 2,542,700
Worcester 110,232,004 14,860,192 23,727,967
Worthington     84,297
Wrentham 2,724,836   789,337
Yarmouth     912,686
Total Aid to Regional Schools 436,403,815
Total 2,558,014,550 476,315,282 597,453,642


  7061-0008
  Chapter 70
Regional Schools School Aid
   
Acton Boxborough 2,431,842
Adams Cheshire 8,888,371
Amherst Pelham 6,722,489
Ashburnham Westminster 7,275,286
Assabet Valley 2,786,513
Athol Royalston 13,515,826
Berkshire Hills 2,718,840
Berlin Boylston 743,609
Blackstone Millville 9,028,689
Blackstone Valley 5,216,573
Blue Hills 3,241,121
Bridgewater Raynham 15,678,636
Bristol County 1,305,453
Bristol Plymouth 4,395,011
Cape Cod 1,742,506
Central Berkshire 6,685,966
Chesterfield Goshen 499,255
Concord Carlisle 1,315,158
Dennis Yarmouth 5,553,348
Dighton Rehoboth 9,007,642
Dover Sherborn 1,017,345
Dudley Charlton 13,623,294
Essex County 3,477,210
Farmington River 313,288
Franklin County 1,923,571
Freetown Lakeville 4,672,586
Frontier 1,090,100
Gateway 6,315,599
Gill Montague 5,856,008
Greater Fall River 9,037,368
Greater Lawrence 10,794,575
Greater Lowell 14,046,125
Greater New Bedford 14,030,539
Groton Dunstable 5,398,664
Hamilton Wenham 2,634,748
Hampden Wilbraham 7,212,952
Hampshire 1,858,138
Hawlemont 650,166
King Philip 3,843,633
Lincoln Sudbury 1,597,652
Ralph C. Mahar 3,256,411
Marthas Vineyard 694,665
Masconomet 2,038,119
Mendon Upton 3,501,467
Minuteman 2,261,713
Mohawk Trail 6,627,424
Montachusett 5,915,152
Mount Greylock 1,758,080
Narragansett 6,650,379
Nashoba 5,089,754
Nashoba Valley 2,016,336
Nauset 2,925,866
New Salem Wendell 675,972
Norfolk County 660,916
North Middlesex 17,972,812
North Shore 1,424,038
Northhampton Smith 796,992
Northboro Southboro 1,340,344
Northeast Metropolitan 5,602,887
Northern Berkshire 2,541,103
Old Colony 1,953,653
Old Rochester 1,345,175
Pathfinder 1,956,234
Pentucket 9,564,003
Pioneer 3,244,347
Quabbin 10,900,999
Quaboag 6,870,781
Shawsheen Valley 3,236,986
Silver Lake 9,425,513
South Middlesex 2,375,947
South Shore 1,899,870
Southeastern 8,007,558
Southern Berkshire 1,550,218
Southern Worcester 4,285,441
Southwick Tolland 6,242,144
Spencer East Brookfield 9,962,656
Tantasqua 5,103,853
Tri County 3,157,858
Triton 7,063,371
Up-Island 773,279
Upper Cape Cod 1,519,794
Wachusett 14,597,419
Whitman Hanson 17,295,963
Whittier 4,888,865
Worcester Trade 7,285,763
Regional Total 436,403,815

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