The Massachusetts Gaming Commission approved $3.1 million in new Community Mitigation Fund grants for Western Massachusetts Tuesday. The awards followed $3.2 million in community mitigation funds it approved May 27.
But this might be the last time the commission distributes this much funding to the region.
Versions of next year’s state budget making their way through Beacon Hill call for the elimination of the fund, folding it into the state’s general coffers.
At Tuesday’s meeting, Joseph Delaney, chief of the commission’s Division of Community Affairs, said the commission currently has enough money collected from casinos to fund the $22 million to $23 million worth of grant requests it has received.
