A catalog of State financial aid to local governments
By: compiled by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council.
Publisher: The Council
Published: 1976
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- Massachusetts.; Grants-in-aid -- Massachusetts.
Description: ...A listing of programs that provide state funds to Massachusetts municipalities; "The catalog is organized into two separate sections. Section I of the catalog is arranged using the format of the Commonwealth's Notice of Estimated Recepts (known more familiarly as the "cherry sheet", because of the fact that it was printed on pink colored paper) to set forth the various state financial assistance allocations which are distributed annually to the Commonealth's local governments. Section II of the catalog describes the various categorical grant programs which are not listed on the "cherry sheet" but which are available to local governments from various state agencies based upon the availability of state funds and the submission of a location application to the grantor state agencies."; a 1977 update was issued and is also kept on this number; copies of these items were in the BRA collection...