Ways & Means Holding Hearings on Human Services in Pittsfield10:07AM / Monday, February 26, 2018 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier and state Sen. Adam G. Hinds will chair one of eight statewide fiscal 2019 state budget hearings on behalf of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means in Pittsfield on Monday, March 12.
These hearings focus on specific areas of state spending and help the House of Representatives and Senate prepare their spending recommendations. The Pittsfield hearing is one of two focused on agencies under the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
While the hearing is open to the public, testimony is limited to senior Baker administration officials by invitation of the committee only. It is expected that commissioners and directors of the Departments of Children and Families, Youth Services, Transitional Assistance, and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, Commission for Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Commission for the Blind, and Office of Refugees and Immigrants will testify.
Hinds and Farley-Bouvier, both Pittsfield Democrats, sit on the Joint Ways and Means Committee.
The hearings will be held in the Connector Room at Berkshire Community College, 1350 West St. in Pittsfield from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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