This is a concise list of formal actions taken or moved at the Oct. 22 Holyoke Ordinance Committee meeting and the committee’s next steps.

Item 2 (treasurer qualifications): Committee voted to amend the treasurer job description to add payroll preparation, account reconciliations, cash-management duties and five-year forecasting responsibilities. Outcome: amendment approved (committee vote recorded as unanimous 5–0). Action: HR and City Solicitor to produce ordinance-ready language; item tabled pending redraft.

Item 3 (treasurer salary range): Human Resources recommended Grade 14 ($85,921–$118,862). Committee debated mid-point limitations and recruitment issues; committee ultimately referred salary language to HR and legal and tabled the item to return with revised proposals.

Item 1 (parks/forester): Committee asked the law department to draft ordinance language to move parks maintenance out from under DPW and place parks under Parks & Recreation; approved. Committee also requested DPW and Conservation provide a pros/cons memo on possible placement of the city forester; approved and tabled pending departmental input.

Item 8 (police parking): Committee approved restricting four curbside spaces in front of the police station for “visitors and police business only,” limited to one hour, and asked the city engineer to confirm crosswalk legality and measurements; signage language to be drafted by counsel; item tabled pending engineering input.

Item 7 (handicap parking application): Committee accepted the Disability Commission’s recommendation to approve an accessible-parking application for Georgina Reyes (292 Pine St., unit 3). Outcome: approved.

Item 6 (short-term rental ordinance public hearing): Public hearing opened; no commenters attended. Committee continued the public hearing to Nov. 19 at 6:30 p.m.

Item 4 (mayor authority to hire above mid point for Schedule A positions): Committee asked the City Solicitor to draft language allowing limited above-mid offers (within budget) and requested that any use of that flexibility be communicated to the city clerk for agenda posting. Item to return to committee with draft.

Item 5 (Schedule A salary study): Committee asked HR to provide updated comparative pay data and tabled the study pending that briefing.

Next steps: Several items were tabled pending legal drafting, HR comparative data or engineering measurement. The committee requested updated drafts and departmental memos for its next meeting.