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Holyoke building department loses part-time clerk as mayor trims proposed budget; department seeks demolition funding and property maintenance supervisor
Summary
Building department director told council Tuesday the mayor removed a part-time clerk position and cut a requested demolition line; the department gained a full-time local inspector and a funded property maintenance and demolition supervisor to address a backlog of dangerous buildings.
Leslie, the Building Department representative, told the Holyoke City Council on June 9 that the mayor—s proposed fiscal 2026 budget eliminated a part-time clerk position she had requested be made full time. "I had put in for making that person a full time clerk... that position actually was eliminated completely," Leslie said during the public hearing.
The building department will retain two recently filled operational positions: a full-time local inspector who began work within the prior week, and a property maintenance and…
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