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State legislators brief Danvers on Emergency Assistance funding, bus-camera pilot and circuit-breaker push
Summary
Sen. Joan Lovely and Rep. Sally Kearns updated the Danvers School Committee on a pending supplemental budget for Emergency Assistance (EA), efforts to raise special-education circuit-breaker and transportation reimbursement levels, and a school-bus camera pilot that towns may opt into.
Senator Joan Lovely and Representative Sally Kearns told the Danvers School Committee on Feb. 11 that the Legislature is considering a supplemental budget to extend Emergency Assistance (EA) payments through the end of the fiscal year and to refine eligibility rules. The legislators said the House passed a package with new caps and eligibility requirements and that the Senate expected to consider the EA supplemental in informal session on Thursday, after a short amendment deadline.
Lovely said the EA program was designed in the early 1980s as an emergency shelter system for families and that recent increases in families seeking assistance had led lawmakers to pursue tighter eligibility rules while funding the system through the current fiscal year. She said about 60% of current…
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