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Municipal Finance Study: What’s Next?
Part III. Materials
Available on Municipal Finance
A variety of materials are
available to local Leagues to educate your local Municipal Finance Study
Committee and your League members.
Materials Available on the
LWVM Website
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"Municipal Finance: Where does the money come from and where does it go?"
Presentations, glossaries, references, and notes from the FPU forum in Boston on
January 27, 2007. Topics include:
overview of revenue and expenditures and trends; education; state assessments;
state aid; Proposition 2½; local options, etc.; employee municipal health
insurance; and employee pensions. www.lwvma.org/fpustudyforummaterials.shtml
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"Municipal Finance: Where does the money come from and where does it go?"
from FPU
forum on January 27, 2007. Presentation slides with their audio tracks from the
forum. Available soon at www.lwvma.org/fpustudyforummaterials.shtml
Materials Available from the
LWVM Office
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"Municipal Finance: Where does the money come from and where does it go?"
January 27, 2007 forum at UMass, Boston, by Fiscal Policy Update Committee. DVD
Note:
The DVD runs four hours; we suggest local League Municipal Finance Study
Committees might want to hold three meetings for viewing the DVD: 1½ hours for
introduction and session 1, 1 hour for session 2, 1½ hours for session 3 and
conclusion. The materials that go along with each session can be downloaded and
printed from the LWVM website (includes guide to each presentation with
miniatures of slides, glossaries, references, additional information).
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“Proposition 2½”
Forum by Andover LWV, October 26, 2006. Forum features Noah Berger of the
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, explanation of Prop 2½ basics by LWV,
and insights by local Finance Committee chair; DVD. Excellent review of Prop 2½
mechanics.
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“Introduction to Municipal Finance”
LWV Falmouth meeting of September 21, 2006 featuring municipal finance
professional Peter Boyer; includes 10 pages of documents. Municipal finance from
the view of local leaders and budgeting process; DVD. Good adjunct to the FPU
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