City Council

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council meeting agenda features the First Reading of a major vote of the City Council: A Loan Order/Land Acquisition Bond to borrow $2,600,000 to pay costs to acquire, by purchase, eminent domain or otherwise, the following property [75…

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: With the end of summer, the City Council will pretty soon return to its weekly meeting schedule. This week agenda has a number of reports as well as replies to a number of motions. The City Auditor, Bryan Barry, has a…

Mimi Parseghian watched last night’s Lowell City Council meeting and shares her notes and observations: Lowell City Council Meeting Notes By Mimi Parseghian Tonight’s City Council meeting began with the “suspension of the rules” to allow an item to be taken up out of order: a presentation by the Massachusetts…

Here is Part II of Mimi Parseghian’s notes on last Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting. Part I was published earlier this week. Lowell City Council Meeting Notes: Part II By Mimi Parseghian For the past four City Council meetings (June 26th; July 10th and 24th, August 14th), the City Council…

Mimi Parseghian watched Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting and shares her notes and observations: Lowell City Council Meeting Notes By Mimi Parseghian Tuesday night’s City Council meeting ended at 10:00 p.m. as it did three weeks ago when the previous meeting was held. At that time, the Council chose to…

Mimi Parseghian previews tonight’s Lowell City Council meeting: After a three-week hiatus, the Lowell City Council is meeting again. The agenda, once again, is lengthy.  This week’s preview is focusing on the Motion Response (11) and the new Motions (15).  There are many other aspects to the agenda which will…

Due to my ongoing Register of Deeds re-election campaign, I have been unable to cover the weekly Lowell City Council meetings as before. However, Mimi Parseghian has stepped up and shared her notes from this Tuesday’s council meeting. Here’s what Mimi wrote: Tuesday night’s City Council meeting ended at 10:00…

Mimi Parseghian previews this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week’s City Council agenda continues the summer tradition; long in items and deep in content. There are also quite a few public hearings. GENERAL PUBLIC HEARING Ordinance: Amend Chapter 272 by establishing new Article X, entitled Stormwater Management. Ordinance: Amend…

Mimi Parseghian previews this week’s Lowell City Council meeting: If Lowell City Council agendas were books, this week’s agenda would be a trilogy.  Meetings every other week and the end of the fiscal year financial housekeeping are the reason. GENERAL PUBLIC HEARINGS Extend Existing Institutional (INST) Zoning District to include…