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Senate proposal increases local aid, flags chapter 70 overhaul
Summary
The Ways and Means recommendation adds $53 million to unrestricted general government aid and funds Chapter 70 at $7.66 billion while signaling plans to reconvene a foundation budget review commission to overhaul school funding.
The Senate Ways and Means recommendation includes a $53 million increase in unrestricted general government aid (UGA), bringing total UGA to approximately $1.376 billion. The committee said those funds would be distributed equitably on a per-capita basis to all 351 municipalities.
"All of that new $53,000,000 to be distributed equitably throughout every town of the commonwealth on a per capita basis," the committee chair said, adding the plan also restarts work on the Chapter 70 foundation budget review commission to examine and reform the K–12 funding formula. Supporters argued the move is intended to ease municipal fiscal pressure while moving toward a more equitable school-funding formula.
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