A Request for Public Comment: Concept draft of 2017 Community Mitigation Fund Guidelines
- November 10, 2016
- by MGC Communications
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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission hereby requests public comment on the “concept draft” of the 2017 Community Mitigation Fund Guidelines (“CMF”). Before beginning any final review of the “concept draft”, the Commission determined that it would seek input from the general public. The purpose of the “concept draft” is to receive substantial recommendations from parties to enable the Commission to evaluate the concepts in this draft. The Commission has not adopted these guidelines.
To view the 2017 Community Mitigation Fund Guidelines draft, please click the below link:
In addition to a request for comments on MassGaming.com, the Commission is seeking the input of the Gaming Policy Advisory Committee and subcommittees, regional planning agencies, host communities, surrounding communities, communities that entered into a nearby community agreement, communities that petitioned to become a surrounding community, geographically adjacent communities, the general public and other interested parties. Comments from other communities and governmental entities are also requested.
This concept draft includes a number of potential changes to the 2016 Community Mitigation Fund Guidelines that the Commission may consider. A summary of such changes can be found here. Included within such potential changes are potential spending limits for the overall 2017 CMF program and within the categories of the grants: Transportation Planning Grant; Specific Impact Grant; and Pre-Employment Grant.
In addition to comments on the potential new guidelines, the Commission would benefit from any comments on whether such limits should be strictly enforced limits for applications or whether they should be more flexible spending guidelines.
Comments are requested by 3:00p.m. November 28, 2016. To expedite the comment process, we encourage you to submit any comments to the 2017 Community Mitigation Fund Guideline concept draft via e-mail to mgccomments@state.ma.us with ‘2017 CMFG’ in the subject line.