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Salem
News - Hoping for state case for election costs The
election to fill the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat may have cast a
white-hot light on the eventual winner, Scott Brown, but it left city
and town clerks seeing red. The
special election, in a nonelection year, cost anywhere from $87,924 in
Peabody, the largest local community, to $4,825 in Wenham, the smallest.
Municipalities
statewide have already been reimbursed some percentage of the expense,
and if the state Senate agrees, they'll soon get the rest of it. State
Auditor Joe DeNucci determined the special election constituted an
unfunded state mandate, and local cities and towns should be reimbursed
by the state for those costs. Gov.
Deval Patrick's supplemental budget, approved by the House, included
$6.3 million to cover the cost. Costs
incurred on the North Shore Salem,
$42,274 Beverly,
$36,667 Boxford,
$5,931 Danvers,
$17,889 Hamilton,
$7,494 Ipswich,
$17,021 Marblehead,
$16,013 Middleton,
$7,485 Peabody,
$87,924 Swampscott,
$16,238 Topsfield,
$6,381 Wenham,
$4,825 |
| Mailing Address:oseph DeNucci
P.O. Box 600252 Newton MA 02460 Office Location: 259 Walnut St Newton, MA 02460 Phone: 617.630.0600 Fax: 617.630.0625 E-Mail: HDQ@JoeDeNucci.com |
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