School Committee Finance and Operations Subcommittee Meeting, September 11, 2025

Finance & Operations Subcommittee Agenda

September 11, 2025

5:30 p.m.

Conference Room

57 Suffolk Street, Holyoke MA

On March 29, 2025, Governor Healey signed into law An Act Relative to Extending Certain State of Emergency Accommodations, which, among other things, extends the expiration of the provisions pertaining to the Open Meeting Law to June 30, 2027. Specifically, this extension allows public bodies to continue holding meetings remotely without a quorum of the public body physically present at a meeting location, and to provide “adequate, alternative” access to remote meetings. The Act does not make any new changes to the Open Meeting Law other than extending the expiration date of the temporary provisions regarding remote meetings from March 31, 2023, to June 30, 2027. 

   Members of the public can access the meeting here: 

https://hps-holyoke-ma-us.zoom.us/j/85287777627

Appointment: 

•     Hardy Allen, Critical Response Group 

Old Business: 

• Final Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Appropriation 

New Business: 

• Budget Transfers:

$639,928 from Salaries to Contract Services 

(to fund speech pathologists/psychologists)

• School Committee Budget Transfer Request

• $67,250 from Contingency to Contracted Services 

      (pay for security improvements between HPS and HPD)

Referred from School Committee:

• Review & Accept MGL Chapter 71, Section 47 

      (Athletic/School/Student Activity Accounts)

• Review/Authorize Student Account Procedures 
  • Student Activities Accounts 

• Review/Authorize student activity clubs & programs