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Trial Court faces staffing shortfalls and multimillion-dollar budget gap, administrator says
Summary
Trial Court Administrator Thomas Ambrosino said the trial court has cut more than 200 positions through a hiring freeze and a retirement incentive, has authorized 72 backfills after a partial funding restoration, and will seek a roughly $41 million increase for FY27 to cover nondiscretionary costs.
Thomas Ambrosino, the Trial Court administrator, told the Massachusetts Bar Association panel that budget shortfalls have substantially reduced staffing and constrained court operations.
"We're down over 200 employees from where we were just in June," Ambrosino said, describing the combined effect of a hiring freeze and a retirement incentive program that prompted more than 100 employees to retire early.
Ambrosino said the trial court began the fiscal year with a budget of $961,300,000 and that the shortfall compared with the court's…
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