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Chicopee City Council tables mayor’s financial orders to Oct. 7 pending nine-vote requirement
Summary
Council members postponed consideration of a series of mayoral appropriations — covering travel expenses, personnel medical exams, indemnifications, equipment, wastewater services and a $2 million street program — citing a charter requirement for nine votes on financial matters.
The Chicopee City Council on Wednesday voted to table all of the mayor’s financial orders until the council’s Oct. 7 meeting, saying the items require nine affirmative votes to pass and that the chamber did not have the necessary number present.
The postponed items include multiple small appropriations to cover late bills from the previous fiscal year as well as larger transfers to cover ongoing public works and emergency-management needs. The orders placed on hold listed a total of about $2.12 million in appropriations, including a $2,000,000 DPW highway special account request for a citywide ward road program and smaller appropriations to human resources and indemnification accounts.
Council President LeFlame said the charter requires nine votes for financial orders and that the council did not have nine members present who could vote on budget matters that evening, so the council would delay consideration until Oct. 7. “On the mayor’s orders for all these finances this evening, we’re not gonna be able to pass them. We need nine votes,” the president…
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