WORCESTER The City Council Tuesday managed to get the $733.8 million fiscal 2022 budget moved out of the Finance Committee, but held off on final approval of the measure for another week.
And unless the state Legislature adopts permanent changes to the state Open Meeting Law this week regarding remote participation, the council could be voting on that budget next week in the first open meeting held in City Hall since March 2020.
City Solicitor Michael Traynor told the council Tuesday that Gov. Charlie Baker s executive orders issued at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic are set to expire June 15, and with it will expire suspension of provisions of the Open Meeting Law that allowed the council to meet remotely for more than a year.