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Candidates split on Municipal Modernization Act and establishing a city finance department
Summary
Holyoke candidates debated the Municipal Modernization Act and whether a new chief financial officer/modernized finance department is needed to fix long-standing bookkeeping problems.
The Municipal Modernization Act and the proposed restructuring of Holyoke’s finance functions were a point of dispute among candidates at the bilingual forum.
Meg McGrath Smith described months of ordinance work on a Municipal Modernization Act intended to create a formal finance department and argued the changes are needed to resolve long-standing accounting problems. “Right now, we have 3 years, we have not been able to…
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