News release from Office of Representative Walter Timilty
Recently, Representative Walter F. Timilty, a member of the Joint Committee on Veterans Affairs and Federal Financial Assistance, attended the Annual Veterans’ Agents/Legislators Luncheon. As a member of this, critically, important committee, Representative Timilty is most proud of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ national leadership in providing well-deserved support for our distinguished veterans.
Commenting on this, Timilty stated, “ Our veterans, who have compromised our magnificent Armed Forces, should receive the very best that our great nation has to offer. They deserve no less.”
Last Thursday, Representative Walter F. Timilty, a member of the budget-writing House Ways and Means, attended the Joint Committee on Ways and Means’ Consensus Revenue Hearing for the FY 2016 budget. The purpose of this critical budgetary hearing is to embark upon the process of ascertaining what the commonwealth of Massachusetts projected revenues will be for the upcoming FY 2016 budget. As part of this budget process, which the Joint Committee on Ways and Means has just embarked upon, Timilty and his colleagues will traverse the Commonwealth of Massachusetts conducting budget hearings on a variety of budgetary topics. Thereby, enabling as many of the citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to weigh-in on this most important of legislative documents: the Commonwealth’s actual budget. Commenting on the annual budget exercise, which along with his colleagues on the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, Representative Timilty has just commenced, Timilty stated, “During our annual budget-exercise, my number one priority has always been and will continue to be the Commonwealth’s local-aid that is returned to our towns enabling our municipalities to fund our schools, fire, police, and public works, amongst other essential municipal services. To every extent possible, it will always be my unwavering goal to ensure that our towns have the financial resources to flourish, especially within the domain of our public schools.”