It is nice that the vetoes were overridden, but there is no mention of where the funds are coming from to support these services. Can you provide some info in this regard? Sue Bernstein
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Steven W. Orr" To: Town Meeting Members , Framingham Neighbors Subject: [tmm] Budget '04 - Overrides (fwd) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 10:46:51 -0400 (EDT) -- steveo at syslang dot net TMMP1 http://frambors.syslang.net/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 01:31:48 -0400 From: Rep. Karen E. Spilka To: Spilka's State House Connections I , Spilka's State House Connections II Subject: Budget '04 - Overrides Good Evening/ Good Morning! Just to let you know, we completed some overrides as of 12 midnight Thursday evening/Friday morning. On many occasions, House Republicans joined Democrats in restoring funding -- on about a dozen, restoration was unanimous. Some of the overrides from today and yesterday include the following restoration of funds/language: 1. The $160,000 for MERC at Framingham State College 2. The $100,000 for the I 495 Technology Corridor Partnership 3. The $75,000 for the Technology Initiative of the Metro South/West Regional Employment Board 4. $5 million in Sewer Rate Relief 5. The $7 million in the Education Reform Reserve, or �Pothole� Fund 6. Money to fully fund the special education �Circuit Breaker� - $6.5 m 7. DMR Line Items for: Administration; Community Based Day & Work Programs; Independent Living; and Turning 22 8. Home care administration & management and congregate housing & care for seniors and disabled 9. Councils on Aging 10. 4110-2000 Mass Rehab Comm - Turning 22 services 11. 4110-0001 Office of the Commissioner of the Blind; the governor reduced the item by $213,456, to $611,836 12. 2010-0100 Clean Environment Recycling Initiative; the governor reduced the item by $2,900,000, to $613,437 13. 4513-1026, a $125,000 line item for suicide prevention 14. 7000-9101 Board of Library Commissioners; the governor reduced the item by $100,000, to $791,182. 15. 1410-0012 Veterans Outreach; the governor reduced the item by $165,000, to $853,615 16. 4130-0002 child abuse prevention program trust fund administration; the governor fully vetoed the $870,557 line item 17. 4510-0720, a $250,000 line item for nurse�s aide scholarships 18. Legal Assistance Corp, Mental Health Legal �dvisors 19. Regional Library Funding 20. Breast Cancer Screening& Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment ($2.7 m) 21. Prostate Cancer Screening 22. AIDS 23. Smoking Cessation and Prevention Programs 24. Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program 25. Commission for the Blind - Community Services and Admin - Talking Information Centers - Radio Reading Service Funded included 26. Riverways Protection Watershed Management 27. DMH - Adult In- Patient and Community Mental Health Also Overrode governor�s veto of: - Outside Section 604: Commission to study alternatives to property tax to fund education - Outside Section 607: local aid/chapter 70 formula study commission We also passed an Act to continue the Teacher/Principal Quality Endowment the signing Bonuses and Master Teacher funds * * * * * * * * * * Karen E. Spilka State Representative 7th Middlesex District State House, Room 443 Boston, MA 02133 Tel.: (617) 722-2460 FAX: (617)626-0474 * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body unsubscribe tmm (the subject is ignored). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe frambors" (the subject is ignored).
