Sen. Adam G. Hinds, D-Pittsfield, announced that Wednesday that the Massachusetts Senate adopted his budget amendment to increase funding for the Rural School Aid grant program by $1 million, raising the total appropriation for this account to $2.5 million in the fiscal year 2020 Senate budget.
A majority of small towns in the state face such a backlog of road repair need that they often have to use funding allocated through the Chapter 90 program for other outstanding projects/engineering programs.
The Baker-Polito administration has announced that $40 million in additional funding will be provided to cities and towns in fiscal year 2019 for road construction and transportation improvement projects.
Monterey has been notified of the receipt of a grant from the Massachusetts Broadband Institute as part of the Last Mile broadband initiative to help communities and companies wire towns, but the town cannot access the funds because they were contingent on Charter-Spectrum being the provider.
And who are the blessed among us? Park Street in Housatonic. The Brooklyn District of Great Barrington: Quarry Street, Pine Street, Higgins Street, Humphrey Street, Grove Street, Crosby Street, Warren Avenue. And Monument Valley Road is also on the list.
