Millions in COVID relief can t be used for Millbury school budget
Lisa Redmond
Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle
MILLBURY – Town Manager Sean Hendricks told the Finance Committee he is “sitting on’’ $600,000 the town received in COVID relief money with another $4 million expected through the American Rescue Plan Act, but he won’t touch either to bridge the $330,000 funding gap in the proposed fiscal 2022 school budget.
“I never thought I’d be a town manager saying, ‘Stop giving me money,’ to federal or state money … But I can’t spend it,’’ Hendricks told the Finance Committee during an April 19 meeting to present the proposed fiscal 2022 municipal budget.