Word: aide
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Dukakis said the uncertainty about state finances may also delay the recent tradition of having the Legislature vote on a local aid resolution in late February to let cities and towns know how much aid they can count on before the municipal budgeting season begins...
House Ways and Means Chair Richard A. Voke (D-Chelsea), who will play a key role in the debate over local aid, taxes and the new budget, immediately put Dukakis on notice that he considered the local aid proposal overly generous in light of available revenues...
Voke also faulted local officials for being willing to accept the local aid increase while they are unwilling to fully endorse the governor's tax package--which calls for raising $131 million the rest of this fiscal year and $604 million annually after that...
Voke also said pointedly that if Dukakis' goal was to "buy off" the cities and towns with generous amounts of local aid, his tactic did not work because legislators are not hearing calls from local officials to support the tax package...
...also warned cities and towns to be "extremely prudent" in drafting their new budgets and said it would be "devastating" if the Legislature delayed a vote on local aid past March...