As costs skyrocket and state aid decreases, cities and towns are choking on budget debt. Can anything be done to help the situation?
Experts Adam Chapdelaine and Phineas Baxandall joined Light columnist and host of The Chat Jack Spillane to examine the statewide crisis and New Bedford’s predicament: a $32 million budget deficit.
Chapdelaine, executive director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association, and Baxandal, director of research and policy analysis for Massachusetts Budget & Policy Center, tackled the staggering predicament with ideas and possible solutions for local municipalities.
