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Residents urge transparency, less restrictive public‑comment rules and formation of lived‑experience advisory group
Summary
Multiple public commenters urged the council to preserve open public comment, improve transparency on overdose statistics and consider a lived‑experience committee; the council referred a proposal to form such a committee to Public Safety.
Public comment at the March 3 Holyoke City Council meeting raised access and policy concerns that councilors said they would continue to address in committee.
Speakers during the allotted two‑minute public comment slots urged the council not to limit resident access to meetings, asked for clearer and regularly updated overdose and treatment statistics, and called for the city to consider policy positions on international matters and local housing issues. David Owen outlined a timeline for implementing a newly…
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