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Finance committee accepts supplemental budget items, approves resilience and safety grants
Summary
Finance committee members accepted multiple supplemental budget items and donations Oct. 27, including federal/state resilience grants and MassDOT traffic-safety equipment. City Auditor Tanya told the committee the mayor—s supplemental currently shows about $1.4 million in surplus; several items will require follow-up transfers or matching funds.
The Holyoke City Finance Committee on Oct. 27 accepted a package of supplemental budget actions and donations that the mayor—s office submitted for FY2026, including two resilience grants and several traffic‑safety and departmental adjustments.
City Auditor Tanya said the supplemental as submitted shows "a $1,400,000 surplus in our total, supplemental budget." The committee in most cases approved individual items but temporarily tabled a full walkthrough of the mayor—s supplemental pending presentations from the mayor and affected departments.
Key approvals and donations the committee accepted included:
- A $390,000 municipal vulnerability preparedness (MVP) grant to fund a wastewater system vulnerability assessment, climate adaptation planning and associated community engagement and green‑infrastructure design. The grant requires a 10% in‑kind match to be met largely through staff time and consultant work the city will track. Mira, a project lead on the effort, said the grant—s "primary purpose is to meet our NPDES requirement to do a vulnerability assessment of the wastewater collection…
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