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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. ....
Lisa Redmond Special to the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle MILLBURY As Phase I of the Armory Village Revitalization project comes to a close, improving a portion of the downtown, town meeting voters in May will be asked to pay about $550,000 to fund Phase II to complete the project. Appearing before the Board of Selectmen on March 23, Millbury Planning and Development Director Laurie Connors, the project manager for the revitalization project, provided a status update on Phase I of the project and the proposal for Phase II. The two-phase project has a goal of “reviving’’ Millbury’s downtown given a list of negative existing conditions, including “uninviting spaces such as crumbling and uneven sidewalks, overgrown invasive vegetation, insufficient lighting, inadequate, non-ADA compliant crosswalks, and walkways with obstructions that are too steep, uneven, cracked and crumbling. ....