Hey Charlie, how about helping out the towns, send more chapter 90 monies out, we could use it.

Looking to close the books on fiscal 2021, Gov. Charlie Baker proposed a supplemental budget bill today that would allocate a significant portion of a state surplus that exceeded $4 billion.

Priorities in the governor’s spending proposal include adding $1 billion to the Unemployment Trust Fund and $568 million for relief programs, mostly focused on housing insecurity and human services.

Ten million dollars would be set aside for the Community Preservation Trust Fund, which provides funding to cities and towns that have adopted local property tax surcharges under the Community Preservation Act.