North Adams Trying to Determine ‘Worst Case’ Budget Picture

The North Adams administration is looking at what kind of scenario North Adams can operate under without knowing how the state budget will play out.

Mayor Thomas Bernard told the City Council on Tuesday night that "worst case is a hard thing to project right now simply because with 44 percent of our budget coming from state sources, a worst case is something that we can't manage, so what we're trying to figure out is what the worst case is that we can reasonably operate under."

The novel coronavirus is expected to devastate budgets across the state as revenues have dropped over the past two months both locally and at the state level.

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