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Votes at a glance: Holyoke Ordinance Committee actions, March 19, 2025
Summary
A summary of the committee’s recorded motions and roll‑call outcomes from the March 19 Ordinance Committee meeting, including referrals, denials, and items tabled.
The Ordinance Committee recorded votes on multiple orders at its March 19 meeting. Key outcomes follow (committee vote tallies and immediate next steps where recorded):
- Item 1 — Minutes (03/05/2025): Received by committee (motion to receive minutes adopted; roll call affirmative).
- Item 2 — Minimum sewer fee: Committee recommended adoption and forwarded to full council (motion to recommend adoption approved by roll call; committee recorded 5 yeas to send to full council).
- Item 3 — Administrative‑leave ordinance: Referred to full City Council without a committee recommendation after amendments to mirror state law and law‑department edits (committee vote 5–0 to refer without recommendation).
- Item 4 — Remove no‑parking sign at 14 Arthur Street: Denied by committee; clerk to follow up with Councilor Ocasio for neighborhood outreach (roll call outcome: order denied).
- Item 5 — Three‑way stop at Mosher & Bauer: Committee accepted the city engineer’s recommendation that a three‑way stop is not warranted; order closed to the extent recommended by engineer (accepted by roll call).
- Item 6 — Crosswalk at North Canal Street (GTI): Referred to DPW for implementation planning and law department review of cannabis impact fee eligibility; committee approved referral and funding inquiry (roll call vote 5–0).
- Items 7 & 8 — Stop‑sign and right‑turn lane requests: Committee accepted city engineer’s validation that warrants were not met for stop signs and required traffic warranting for a right‑turn lane; orders closed or referred per engineer recommendation (accepted by roll call).
- Item 9 — Legal opinion on allowed uses of marijuana impact money: Maker withdrew order; committee closed the item.
- Item 10 — Mayor’s veto on reporting losses (damage reporting threshold): Committee marked item as complied with after confirming related language was incorporated into recently adopted financial policies (committee roll call vote recorded as affirmative).
- Items 11 & 12 — Return sewer‑rate authority to DPW/Board of Public Works: Both orders were left to withdraw by sponsors as stale or duplicative and removed from the docket.
- Item 13 — School‑zone designation request for Lighthouse Holyoke (92 Ray Street): Tabled pending sponsor follow‑up with Lighthouse to confirm DESE recognition and to gather route plans required by MassDOT for school‑zone designation.
- Item 14 — Hamden streetscape improvements (Waldo to Nanotuck): Committee accepted engineer’s map and referred ordinance language to the law department for legal drafting; DPW to implement painting/markings once legal form is ready (unanimous roll call).
- Item 15 — Raised crosswalks on Somerset Street: Left to withdraw pending confirmation of petition signatures and city clerk follow‑up.
- Items 16 & 17 — Speed‑humps requests and crosswalks (Taylor Street; North Canal/GTI block): Item 16 was tabled to allow sponsor follow‑up; Item 17 was left to withdraw (per committee motions).
- Item 18 — Acceptance of public ways: Richard Eager Drive accepted for addition to book of accepted public ways; Linan Drive accepted pending Board of Public Works recommendation; Ogden Street was tabled for later follow‑up.
- Item 21 — Ordinance review on poultry/backyard hens (Board of Health, Building Department, Animal Control): Committee tabled the order and requested sponsors and staff form a study/ad‑hoc group to draft regulatory options including special‑permit pathways.
Several items were left to withdraw or tabled for sponsor follow‑up; multiple referrals require DPW plans, law‑department drafting, or mayoral appropriation action before implementation.
