Springfield City Council looks to rescind ‘tainted’ vote as Council Prez navigates conflict of interest violations

Take My Council, Please: Press Any Key to Discontinue…

Within hours of its end, the modest agenda for the February 2 Springfield City Council meeting ballooned into a larger controversy. To rectify, it may require rescinding and/or reconsidering one action in Groundhog Day-esque fashion. The trouble erupted after City Council Tracye President Whitfield failed The post Take My Council, Please: Press Any Key to Discontinue… appeared first on Western Mass Politics & Insight.

Springfield City Council looks to rescind ‘tainted’ vote as Council Prez navigates conflict of interest violations

What started as a run-of-the-mill agenda item - one calling on the city to surrender an empty lot for effectively nothing - has become the Springfield City Council’s first controversy of the year, entangling the new council president in the process.