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Charter and Rules committee backs modernizing meeting notices; special‑meeting charter change tabled for home‑rule petition
Summary
The committee approved replacing mailed notices with electronic delivery and city-website posting for routine council agendas and adopted rule text for regular-meeting notice, while tabling the related special-meeting charter change pending a home‑rule petition and further ordinance drafting.
The Holyoke Charter and Rules Committee voted to update its council-notice practice to treat email delivery and posting on the city website as sufficient notice for regular meetings and subcommittee meetings, and to move forward with drafting language for a home‑rule petition to amend the charter’s special‑meeting notice provision.
Committee members discussed practical steps for implementation — including continued options for hand delivery when needed, whether agendas could be delivered to a councilor’s city‑hall desk, and who would be the designated person to perform hand delivery or act…
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