City Council

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week City Council has a relatively light public agenda. However, the Executive Session portion which is held in private has three areas of discussion:  “Provide an update to the Council on contract negotiations with the Lowell Police Association and Local…

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: Mainly due to the return of weekly meetings, this Tuesday’s City Council agenda is light in items but it will be a significant evening in that a major vote will be taken.  At the conclusion of the scheduled 7:00 p.m. meeting,…

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: The Council is back to weekly meetings so this week’s agenda is a bit lighter than those for the previous months. MOTION RESPONSES: Bicycle Safety: Motion (3/6/18) by Councilor K. Cirillo “Request City Manager provide a report for budgeted cost and…

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…