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Finance committee backs higher pay for police crime analyst after debate on budget and ordinance limits
Summary
Holyoke City finance committee voted 3–2 to approve raising the police department crime analyst salary from the budgeted mid-range to $78,000 and send the measure to the full city council. Committee members debated budget offsets, ordinance pay limits and claimed overtime savings tied to the analyst’s work.
The Holyoke City Finance Committee voted 3–2 on March 11 to approve raising the salary offer for a newly hired police crime analyst to $78,000 and forward the item to the full City Council on March 18.
The vote follows a presentation by the police chief urging support for the analyst, Reyna Diaz, whom the chief said has cut overtime and administrative time by producing actionable data. “Since I took helm with the police department on January 6, she’s been an asset to us,” the police chief said, adding Diaz’s work had cut overtime “somewhere around $30,000 per pay period” and reduced other costs through data-driven policing.
The committee’s debate focused on two strains of concern: process and fiscal restraint. Councilor Jourdain said the…
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