Quick note on the FY21 City of Worcester budget

We'd heard this was what was being done already, but I think it bears repeating:

“What we did was take the governor’s numbers that came out before this (COVID-19 pandemic) and we used those as the baseline with the understanding that there’s a good likelihood they’re going to go down,” he added.

That's City Manager Ed Augustus being quoted in this Telegram & Gazette article by Nick Kotsopoulos, who also (thank you) notes that the vast majority of this year's projected FY21 budget increase is Chapter 70 aid...and as I am going to keep repeating, state aid is more volatile than local revenue.
The city budget, incidentally, is online here, and the schools page is here.

The proposed Worcester Public Schools FY21 budget is out next Friday, May 15.