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Holyoke committee weighs reducing agenda bloat, improving SeeClickFix follow‑up
Summary
Committee members discussed routing many council 'receive and adopt' orders to departments, improving SeeClickFix responsiveness and adding cost estimates to requests so the budget process can address them. The committee agreed to pursue process changes and marked the maker's order 'complied with.'
Holyoke’s Charter and Rules Committee spent substantial time on Jan. 6 discussing whether the City Council’s long agendas—often 70–90 items—should be slimmer and whether many items filed as council orders would be better handled as departmental communications.
Councillor Meg McGrath Smith raised the issue, saying many agenda items function as messages to department heads rather than matters needing council action. “A lot of it’s…
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