City Council

City Council Preview: January 28, 2019

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow’s Lowell City Council meeting.   A memo on the Free Cash Certification from City Auditor Bryan Perry leads this week’s City Council agenda. Auditor Perry informed the City Council that the Department of Revenue (DOR) has certified “free cash” for the City to be $2,513,634 as…

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City Council Preview: January 21, 2019

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: This week City Council Agenda begins with City Auditor Bryan Berry’s Year to Date (July – December) Budget Report. The 35-page report should generate questions of explanation and assessment. The Administration’s portion of the agenda has four Motion Responses, including a…

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City Council Preview: Jan 14, 2019

Mimi Parseghian previews tomorrow night’s Lowell City Council meeting: Lowell City Council meeting agenda for this Tuesday’s meeting has a couple of motions of wide interest. And for the second week in a row, they will hold an Executive Session. MOTION RESPONSE Response to Violence in the City Motion (12/4/18)…

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Lowell City Council Meeting: January 8, 2019

ROLL CALL – all present. CITY CLERK Minutes of Cannabis Control SC December 18th; City Council Meeting December 18th, for acceptance. COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITY MANAGER Petition Response: Dalton and Fisher St.- Four Way Stop (report on a citizen petition re 4 way stop). No discussion. Communication-Accept resignation of Caitlin Nover…

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City Council Review: 2018

Mimi Parseghian, who regularly contributes her weekly preview of Lowell City Council meetings As Dick mentioned in his Lowell Year in Review , the “nine victors in the bruising 2017 Lowell City Council race” gathered on January 2, 2018 to begin the municipal meeting year. In spite of the single-issue…

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Lowell City Council Meeting: December 18, 2018

ROLL CALL – all present CITY COUNCIL – MOTION (taken out of order) Samaras – Req. City Mgr. provide a report to the city council and school committee/administration regarding school department reimbursement for the Digital Connections Partnership School Grant Program totaling $553,217.46 that was sent to the Lowell Treasurer/Collector’s Office…

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City Council Preview: December 18, 2018

Mimi Parseghian previews tonight’s Lowell City Council meeting: Tonight’s City Council meeting is the last for this year.  It is short on Council motions, just one; but very long on Motion Responses; thirteen of them. At the conclusion of the open meeting, the Council will meet again in Executive Session…

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