Government Meetings

Tensions turned into sparks shortly after the beginning of this week’s meeting at the City Council. In the words of Assistant City Solicitor Michael Bissonette: “I think it’s [...]

This week the City Council heard from the public and its president that the conduct of Ward 3 City Councilor David Bartley at a Jan. 7 Ordinance Committee meeting, was […]

The City Council resumed its regular bi-weekly meetings this week. The Holyoke Teachers Association wrote to the City Council, urging the governmental body to hold a transparent process in the [...]

The City Council held two budget hearings this week. Below are links to the details of the proposals for budgets by the city’s department heads and Mayor Joshua Garcia. Consolidated […]

City Council Meets on Budget The City Council met with the mayor and other departments heads as part of the process of going over the city’s budget line by line. […]

Holyoke is continuing its upward curve into a transformed and healthy city in the management of its money, the education of its youth, better housing for people of different incomes […]

LOCAL CONTROL SCHOOL SUBCOMMITTEE April 23, 2024 Yadillete Rivera, School Committee member and chair of the Local Control Committee, is one of the officials shepherding control of the Holyoke [...]

Pretty much from the get-go the Ordinance Committee spent 1+ hours on the issue of speeders. Melissa LaFond of Laurel St., introduced herself at the Ordinance Committee meeting held on […]

The City Council tabled until its next meeting in March the question of whether to place on the November ballot what to do about the property surcharge that goes to […]