Holyoke City Council boosts hourly rate for Reserve Police Officers
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
Reserve officers perform similar duties as full-time cops and attend the police academy in Springfield for training.
Ordinance Committee Chair Rebecca Lisi said her councilors looked at the hourly rates for reserve police officers in nearby communities. The committee arrived at the $18 hour for the current fiscal years, with the hope of raising the rate to $20 in Fiscal 2022.
Lisi said the council would need to review union contracts for future raises to avoid conflicts.
The hourly increase was supported by Councilors Todd McGee, Peter Tallman, Joseph McGiverin and Terence Murphy.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said most COVID-19 vaccine providers will start Phase 1B Monday, Jan. 11 but some vaccine providers will begin sooner.
Holyoke City Council sets property tax rates; commercial rate exceeds $40 mark
Updated Dec 19, 2020;
HOLYOKE Property taxes will go up in 2021, with homeowners paying $19.28 per $1,000 in assessed valuation and businesses paying $40.65 per $1,000.
The new commercial rate likely will produce groans in Holyoke’s business community, which feared breaking the $40 mark. Holyoke has the highest commercial tax rate in Massachusetts.
The City Council set the rates during an online session Friday night.
The new resident rate is a 1.0% increase from 2020′s rate of $19.08. It reflects in part the assessed value of the average single-family home in Holyoke jumping from $197,000 to $207,000. The average residential tax bill in 2021 will be around $3,990.
North Carolina Continues Recovering from Fall Cyberattack
Chatham County, N.C., is continuing to slowly rebound from a late October cyberattack that shut down most of the county’s functions and temporarily cut off public access to government services. by Tammy Grubb, The Herald-Sun / December 14, 2020 Shutterstock
(TNS) Chatham County, N.C., is slowly rebounding from a late October cyberattack that shut down most county functions and temporarily cut off public access to services.
But officials still don t know what caused the
Oct. 28 attack that disrupted most of the county s computer network, email and office phones, County Manager
Dan LaMontagne
said. The specifics won t be released until an investigation is finished, he said.
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