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Council sends municipal-modernization and charter changes to committee; central finance budget returned to mayor for supplemental
Summary
A broad municipal-modernization package — including proposed charter changes and ordinances to create administrative/finance positions and to modernize appointment processes — was sent to Charter & Rules and Ordinance committees for further review; the proposed central finance department budget was sent back to the mayor to await a supplemental.
The Holyoke City Council used its June 30 special meeting to route an extensive municipal-modernization package and multiple charter and ordinance amendments to committee rather than taking final votes.
Councilors voted to suspend the rules to consider several charter items (14–16) as a package and to keep them in Charter & Rules. They also agreed to send a set of ordinance proposals (including a substitute municipal modernization ordinance, creation of a…
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