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Regional planning agencies seek protection from retroactive state retirement payments
Summary
Regional planning agencies told the Joint Committee on Public Service that retroactive employer retirement contributions could force layoffs or closures and asked lawmakers to pass S.1805/H.2889 to protect agencies from unsustainable retroactive liabilities.
Representatives of the Old Colony Planning Council and the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies told the Joint Committee on Public Service that legislation is needed to prevent retroactive retirement contributions from jeopardizing regional planning agencies.
Mary Waldron, executive director of the Old Colony Planning Council, said staffing at regional planning agencies has remained flat while demand has grown, and that the…
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