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    THE GENERAL COURT November 2, 2009 His Excellency Deval L. Patrick Governor of the Commonwealth Room 360, State House Boston, MA 02133, RE: 9c Cut to Local Aid ~ Regional School Transportation Account 7035-0006 ‘Dear Governor Patrick, We write to respectflly request that you reconside- your nearly $0% cut to Regional Schoo! Transportation Reimbursement as part of your plan to close the $600 million gap inthe Fiscal Year 2010 budget. While we respect your efforts to leave local aid and Chapter 70 untouched, we are compelled to point out that Regional Sexoo] Transportation is local ad t0 towns in regional school districts as much as is Chapter 70 aid and the lottery formula. Distits tat receive acu fom this account willbe forced to make up fort by ets to their education budgets. Simply stated, a Chapter 71 cut in regional school districts is, essentially, the equivalent ‘ofa Chapter 70 cut. Because of the mandate that regional school dstriss must provide student transportation and because regional school districts cannot go back to their member towns for additional finding, the only avenue left to make up the transportation cuts is inthe education budget. (Cutting regional school transportation is cutting education aid to regional schoo! districts. This ‘means that, in regional school districts, the cuts to personnel and services your Administration is trying to avoid will, infact, occu. Combining transportation routs, especially in regional districts in the westem part of the commonwealth would place an extreme burden on students ‘who would then be required to ride a schoo! bus route for inordinate amounts of time. Furthermore, we do not believe a credible argumen: can be made in favor of further regionalization while the schools that are already regionalized are being et dspropostonaly. Municipal leaders have seen incentives for regionalization dry up over the years. This is not a new problem, but it is particularly relevant given the Administration's agenda for regionalization. ‘Our final objection lis in the proportion ofthe cut ‘he Regional School Transportation Account will receive compared to other accounts. The top cu is $31,997,759 tothe University of Massachusetts but that is offset by Federal Stimulus funds. Regional School Transportation has not seen fl 100% funding in several decades but the cus inthe recat recession have been

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