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Committee moves to separate parks maintenance from DPW; asks legal and departments for draft options
Summary
Holyoke’s ordinance committee voted to ask the law department to draft language removing parks maintenance from the Department of Public Works and to collect pros/cons about where the city forester role should sit, directing DPW and Conservation to provide input.
The Holyoke Ordinance Committee on Oct. 22 advanced motions to separate parks maintenance from the Department of Public Works and to study where the city forester function should be placed.
Committee members said the combined “park superintendent/forester” role has historically prioritized park-maintenance tasks while forestry duties — tree inventories, risk mitigation and grant-funded conservation projects — received less attention. Members asked the law department to draft ordinance language to return parks maintenance and the park superintendent position to the Parks & Recreation chain of authority…
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