This afternoon the House voted to override the Governor’s vetoes of the MCC and Library Line Items!!\u00a0 They now head to the Senate for that body to override those vetoes! (Possibly on Monday, July 30th!!)<\/p>\n
\u00a0Massachusetts Cultural Council \u00a0Line Item # 0640-0300 \u00a0<\/strong>The House restored\u00a0full funding<\/strong>\u00a0to this line item by overriding the Governor\u2019s veto\/reduction!!!\u00a0\u00a0The amount has been restored to $16,154,982 (The vote was 141 to 8)<\/strong><\/p>\n What the Governor vetoed\/reduced in funding:<\/em><\/p>\n Reduce\/Strike Wording \u00a0(reduce MCC funding by)\u00a0-2,084,283 to 14,070,699<\/em> Municipal Libraries Local Aid Line Item # 7000-9501 \u00a0<\/strong>The House voted to restore\u00a0full funding<\/strong>\u00a0to this line item by overriding the Governor\u2019s veto\/reduction in funding. The amount was restored to $9,612,700! (The vote was 123 to 27)<\/strong> What the Governor vetoed\/reduced in funding:<\/em><\/p>\n Reduce by\u00a0-250,000 to 9,362,700<\/em> This afternoon the House voted to override the Governor’s vetoes of the MCC and Library Line Items!!\u00a0 They now head to the Senate for that body to override those vetoes! (Possibly on Monday, July 30th!!) \u00a0Massachusetts Cultural Council \u00a0Line Item # 0640-0300 \u00a0The House restored\u00a0full funding\u00a0to this line item by overriding the Governor\u2019s veto\/reduction!!!\u00a0\u00a0The amount …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[143,133,40,35,18,100],"class_list":["post-9066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-news","tag-143","tag-artists","tag-creative-economy","tag-mass-cultural-council","tag-massachusetts","tag-non-profit"],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\u201cI am striking language which earmarks funding for programs not recommended, and I am reducing this item to the amount projected to be necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cI am striking language which earmarks funding for programs not recommended. The reduction in the item incorporates the amount of the stricken earmarked funds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"