Amendment #180 to H4100

ECRECC Reatined Revenue Account

Mr. Costello of Newburyport moves to amend the bill in section 2, by inserting after item 8910-0619 the following item:

"8910-0620 For the Essex sheriff’s department, which may expend for the operation of the Essex County Regional Emergency Communications department an amount not to exceed $5,500,000 from revenues received from cherry sheet assessments and grant funding from the State 911 Department; provided, that said sheriff may expend from this item costs associated with the operation of the Essex County Regional Emergency Communications Center from the per capita cherry sheet assessment on member communities and support and incentive grant funds received; and provided further, that notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for the purpose of accommodating timing discrepancies between receipt of retained revenues and related expenditures, the department may incur expenses and the comptroller may certify for payment amounts not to exceed the lower of this authorization or the most recent revenue estimate as reported in the state accounting system………….. $5,500,000"