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City solicitor: council approval required for overtime transfers; injured‑on‑duty transfers may be reported as communications
Summary
City Solicitor Lisa Ball advised the Finance Committee that, under current Holyoke ordinances, council approval is required for transfers increasing overtime lines (object codes 51300–51399) but not for regular personal service lines (51100–51299); staff and councilors discussed reporting injured‑on‑duty transfers as communications and the possibility of ordinance revisions.
The committee reviewed a legal opinion from City Solicitor Lisa Ball dated Jan. 6 on whether transfers that increase personal service object lines require City Council approval. Ball told the committee that the ordinance language requiring council approval for certain transfers was amended in 2017 and later the specific provision was removed in the…
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