Braintree Gets Over $1 Million For Projects In MA Spending Bill

BRAINTREE, MA —A $3.8 billion spending plan was approved by Gov. Charlie Baker. The bill uses a combination of federal pandemic stimulus dollars and state surplus money to pay for an enormous variety of initiatives — but omits permanent tax cuts that were part of discussions earlier this year.

Baker signed the bill into law after months of back-and-forth between his administration and the state legislature.

Included in the bill are funds earmarked for communities across Massachusetts. Among those funds for Braintree are:

• $1 million in local economic development projects
• $500,000 for economic development

According to Patch reporting, the spending plan is on top of tax refunds heading to about 3 million state residents, the result of an obscure law that caps how much income tax revenue the state can collect in a given year.

There are key items that were omitted from the bill on top of tax cuts, including bringing back happy hour, and proposed $250 stimulus checks for some state residents.

Read more on the bill: What's In The $3.8 Billion MA Economic Development Spending Bill