Lawmaker representing Randolph seeks to loosen Gateway City eligibility criteria

Lawmaker representing Randolph seeks to loosen Gateway City eligibility criteria

IN 2017, the town of Randolph met two of the three criteria set in state law to qualify as a Gateway City, a designation that comes with state funding opportunities. The community was just shy of the population requirement but had a median household income below the Commonwealth’s average and a rate of educational attainment of a bachelor’s degree that was also below the state average.  The 2020 US Census provided hope that a few hundred new res…