State Senate budget cuts deeper

The budget proposal from the Senate of the Commonwealth makes even deeper cuts to local aid than the House had proposed, cuts local school aid(known as Chapter 70), and elimlinates funding for police college degree bonuses(Quinn bill). The local aid proposal can be found at this link.
The Senate budget and the budget adopted by the House will have to be reconciled in a conference committee. The final bill...

...must be passed by both houses and signed by the Governor. Any vetos by the Governor (Massachusetts governors have line item veto powers) can be overridden if the votes are there and then the budget is final. Unfortunately, the available revenue projections keep shrinking. This requires deeper and deeper cuts to programs and aid to municipalities. We don't know today what the final result will be but it is safe to say it will be less dollars from the state.
What that means to Dartmouth is that we may have to forgo some of the overdue capital projects which were planned for FY10 in order to meet our operating expense.