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Chicopee rules committee authorizes law department reply to open‑meeting complaints about minutes
Summary
The Chicopee City Rules Committee voted to allow the law department to send formal responses to multiple open‑meeting‑law complaints alleging missing documents and roll‑call votes from March council meetings; the law department said no violations occurred.
The Chicopee City Rules Committee on June 11 voted to allow the city law department to issue formal responses to multiple open‑meeting‑law complaints alleging deficiencies in city council meeting minutes.
The complaints, filed in April, accused the council of failing to list documents used during deliberations and of not recording roll‑call votes in minutes for March meetings. The committee reviewed a draft response from the law department and approved sending the response onward as the next step in the complaint process.
The questions concern complaints filed by Patrick Higgins on April 7, 2025, about the March 4, 2025, special meeting minutes, and by Derek Dobas in April 2025 regarding the March 31 and…
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