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Holyoke council splits on transfers tied to retroactive pay; legal guidance and charter procedure debated
Summary
Holyoke City Councilors debated and ultimately approved a $21,600.22 transfer tied to retroactive pay on Feb. 18 after an extended procedural dispute over charter reading requirements and DLS guidance; other related transfers drew divided votes and were debated but the transcript does not record final passage for all items.
The Holyoke City Council debated several personnel-related transfers and retroactive-pay appropriations on Tuesday, Feb. 18, focusing on whether the transactions complied with the charter’s two-reading requirement and whether outside confirmation from the Department of Revenue’s Department of Local Services (DLS) was needed.
Councilors considered an order to transfer $21,600.22 from a mayoral contract-negotiations line to several departmental salary lines (agenda item 2). Councilor Jordan (transcript: "Jourdain") said he planned to speak with DLS on Friday to confirm whether moving funds placed in the mayor’s department into separate departments would trigger interdepartmental-transfer rules. Councilor Bacon moved to send the group of items (items 2–6) to the finance committee; that motion failed on a roll call recorded in the transcript as 6 yeas and 7 nays.
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