THE EVERETT ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2022 Page 19 BAKER | FROM PAGE 15 sit Authorities • $11.6M for the Merit Rating Board Energy and the environment • $4M for the Summer Nights program, an increase of $2.7M (208 percent) versus FY22 funding • $30.5M for the Massachusetts Emergency Food Assistance Program, which will provide more than 27.4M nutritious meals for individuals and families • $3.7M for climate change and adaptation preparedness • $1.3M to expand the Swim Safe Massachusetts program to enhance and promote water safety Criminal justice and public safety • $14.3M to support for the 87th and 88th Massachusetts State Police Recruit Training Troops, which are expected to bring on 175 new troopers each • $78.3M in total funding for reentry and diversion programming across the Commonwealth, a $42.6M (120 percent) increase since 2015 • $12.3M in funding for the Shannon Grant program to OBITUARIES Janice M. (Tirico) Roberts Of Everett on January 30, 2022. Beloved mother of Shawn J. & Stephen Roberts. Loving grandmother of Shawn Kenneth Roberts & Christopher Carr Roberts. Twin sister of Jane O’Keeffe Adored aunt of Stephanie Perry and Courtney Degrazia. Janice is also survived by many cousins and good friends. fund anti-gang and youth violence– prevention efforts • $10.4M to fully fund tuition and fee waivers for National Guard members • $8M for the Municipal Police Training Commission to implement bridge academies, expand training capacity and annualize training requirements, such as de-escalation and school resource officer trainings • $5.8M for new appropriations supporting the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission and four other commissions created in the Police Reform bill. Securing and modernizing government IT For the Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS), $164.1M to support the following: • Management of Cyber Security Operations Center • Continued migration of applications and infrastructure to cloud, third-party on premise and Software as a Service (SaaS) • Continuation of EOTSS customer engagement initiative to enhance IT and security service offerings across Commonwealth agencies • IT strategy consulting services in support of priority state agency and cross-secretariat initiatives • Business intelligence and data analytics support for state agencies • Centralized software and IT contract compliance program
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