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Finance committee approves police IT transfer, accepts two public-safety grants
Summary
The Holyoke Finance Committee approved a $10,500 intra-department transfer to cover police technology expenses and accepted two state grants totaling about $636,446 to fund gang suppression, walking beats and joint crime-suppression work.
The Holyoke City Council Finance Committee on Jan. 14 voted to transfer $10,500 within the police budget to cover pending technology invoices and accepted two state public-safety grants that together contribute roughly $636,446 to local crime-suppression programs.
Committee chair Councilor Carmen Devine moved the transfer, which shifts $10,500 from patrolmen to map/data maintenance to cover invoices tied to the department’s new records-management system. Chief Brian Keenan and Sergeant Zurheide told the committee that a recent payment to the Mark43 record-management system consumed a substantial portion of the department’s IT budget and the transfer was needed…
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