2026-11-05 - City Council
Summary
Built from the city's posted agenda only. The minutes are not yet posted (they will be approved November 17), so outcomes are not known. The meeting was moved from November 3 because of the election.
- Planning Board's revised zoning ordinance package (the chair's October 29 letter; the Board voted October 27 to send an update to the February 10 package of 41 orders grouped by comprehensive-plan strategy). See Zoning Overhaul and Comprehensive Plan.
- Notices of Decision: fence height on Beech St; a parking reduction on Suffolk St (Palladium Holdings).
- EcoATM second-hand license on High St.
- Charter and Rules reports: comprehensive Council-rules review, the tabling rule (9h), public-comment rules including remote participants, and Council President seating. See Open Government and Public Access.
- Home-rule petition for an Article 97 land exchange (right-of-way taking, at the Law Department's request).
- Holyoke Media board seat (a term that expired June 30, 2026).
- Councilor Devine's orders asking the Planning Board to meet in person for the Wyckoff Country Club development and the Walmart Super Store. See Northampton Street Corridor Development.
- Board of Assessors appointments and the retirement of Chief Assessor Deborah Brunelle. See Finance Department Reorganization.
- Councilor Magrath-Smith asks for Law guidance on the new state variance statutes after the Crescent St withdrawal. See Crescent Street Treatment Facility Rezoning and Variance.
- Orders from Councilors Panitch and Thalheimer on problem-properties lists and reports (see Housing and Redevelopment) and a GLOVE-ban ordinance order (see Police Technology and Oversight); a tree-pit and stump plan (see Urban Forestry and Tree Planning).
- Late-filed: special permit for Westfield Rd (two to three dwellings); CAFO Timothy J. Plante's finance reorganization, appointing Laura Shaw as Treasurer/Collector and Sharon Bittner-Willis as Comptroller (both effective November 21, 2026, terms to January 1, 2030), with an organization chart (see Finance Department Reorganization); and a $269,270.08 transfer (Devine, item 41).
Agenda
Agenda posted on the city's meeting page; see Sources.
Sources
- City meeting page and index: https://www.holyoke.org/departments/public-meetings/
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah_5evFg6Ds (Holyoke Media YouTube channel)
- A Spanish-interpreted version of the same meeting is also posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLhJQRA1dBo
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