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Holyoke council approves routine transfers and grants, confirms appointments and accepts several grants
Summary
At its Jan. 7 meeting the Holyoke City Council approved a series of routine personnel and budget transfers, accepted multiple grants, confirmed an appointment to the Recycling Advisory Committee and received several departmental reports.
The Holyoke City Council on Jan. 7 approved a range of routine business: personnel and budget transfers, grant acceptances, committee referrals and an appointment to the Recycling Advisory Committee.
Key actions taken by the council included:
- Appointment referred: The council received and sent to the Public Service Committee a mayoral letter appointing Joseph Black to the Recycling Advisory Committee (Item 1).
- Budget transfers approved: The council approved multiple transfers after finance committee review, among them a $33,000 transfer for engineering services related to filling a city engineer role (Item 9), a $20,000 transfer to cover a costly fire-engine repair (Item 10), and a $250,000 transfer to cover firefighter overtime (Item 11). The $33,000 transfer passed on a recorded roll call (12 yeas, 1 nay). Other transfers described in the jacket were approved by…
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