Budget Amendment ID: FY2024-S3-141

ECO 141

Community Action Agencies

Messrs. Moore, Mark and Tarr, Ms. Gobi, Mr. Cronin, Ms. Kennedy and Messrs. Brady, Keenan, O'Connor, Timilty, Lewis and Collins moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after item 7002-0018 the following item:

“7002-0025 For operational support grants to community action agencies; provided, that criteria for the distribution of the grants, including minimum or maximum grant size, eligible uses, and any relevant reporting and accountability measures, shall be developed jointly with the Massachusetts Association for Community Action, Inc. or MASSCAP; and provided further, that the grants shall be used to assist the agencies in their mission to assist residents of the commonwealth living with low incomes to stabilize their lives and achieve economic prosperity, and in creating and expanding opportunity for those residents in the neighborhoods and municipalities where they live and work.............................. $7,500,000”.