When state government requires that local governments provide a new service it is generally required to provide funding to meet those requirements. If a local government believes it is not receiving adequate funding to implement the service it can petition the Office of the State Auditor’s Division of Local Mandates (DLM) to determine if it is being subjected to an unfunded mandate. Below are the responses to these petitions.
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All Local Mandate Determinations
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2024
2023
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2022
2020
2019
The Office of the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates has certified the costs to be incurred by cities and town to provide uniform polling hours in the 2020 state and presidential elections.
This mandate determination examines whether a 2018 law regarding disability benefits for firefighters is an unfunded mandate under the Local Mandates Law.
State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump certified that Massachusetts communities spent approximately $1.1 million on mandated expenses to provide early voting in 2018.
2018
This mandate determination examines whether the costs for services provided to out-of-district foster care students constitute an unfunded mandate.
At the direction of the Legislature, the Office of the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates has certified the unfunded mandated costs incurred by cities and town to provide early voting in the 2016 general election.
2017
Responding to a petition from Framingham, State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump determined that certain educator evaluations do not constitute an unfunded mandate.
The Office of the State Auditor's Division of Local Mandates has determined the fiscal year 2019 costs to be incurred by each city and town to provide three incremental hours for the next state primary to be conducted in September 2018 and general election to be conducted in November 2018.
Responding to petitions from the Town of Oxford and the City of Woburn, Auditor Suzanne M. Bump determined that parts of the early voting law constitute an unfunded mandate.
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