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Regional planning agencies urge lawmakers to block retroactive state retirement payments that could force closures
Summary
Executive directors of Massachusetts regional planning agencies told the Joint Committee on Public Service that retroactive employer contributions to the Massachusetts State Retirement Board would be unsustainable and could force layoffs or closures of multiple regional planning agencies.
Executive directors from Massachusetts regional planning agencies told the Joint Committee on Public Service that a proposed interpretation requiring retroactive employer contributions to the Massachusetts State Retirement Board would create overwhelming costs and risk the agencies’ survival.
"The payments to the state retirement board would be unsustainable and certainly would lead to large scale layoffs, termination of services to our communities and force many regional planning agencies to shut down," Mary Waldron, executive director of the Old Colony Planning Council, said. Waldron…
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