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Mayor Kennedy introduces and thanks the Michael Roundy and Bianca Morrow, the organizers of this year’s very successful Lowell Kinetic Sculpture race. City Auditor explains report on Charter School funding which was included in city council packet. (see my report on that report in Sunday’s Week in Review post). Councilor…
Read More »Owner of Lowell Spinners, Dave Heller, addresses the council. Says he’s delighted to be in Lowell; that’s he been entrusted to “manage your team.” He’s been very impressed with how deeply engrained in the fabric of the community the Spinners have become over the past 19 years. He’s owned six…
Read More »Motions taken out of order: By Councilor Rourke. Request city council name the intersection of Fox and East 6th St after the Cullen family for their generations of service in the United States military. Passed. Presentation by Architect of Judicial Center. Ground breaking for new courthouse will be on September…
Read More »By Mimi Parseghian On Tuesday night, the Lowell City Council took steps to attract more Lowell residents to run for municipal office. The Ad-Hoc Subcommittee on Charter Changes and Elections met to discuss three Council motions that pertained to local elections. The three-member Sub-Committee, Councilors Jim Leary, Bill Samaras and…
Read More »Motion Responses: Cost of cleanup of homeless parks – Because of hazardous conditions, mostly used needles, the city is composing an RFP for an outside company to do cleanups of these parks. Manager Murphy says he is contemplating training a team from the city’s DPW to do the work in…
Read More »Regarding the report on the new garage for the Hamilton Canal District and whether he is alarmed by the slippage of the construction date, Manager Murphy says that it will take some additional time for the MassWorks grant to bring the infrastructure to the site for the new garage and…
Read More »This September 27, 1966 editorial from the Lowell Sun reminds us that fifty years ago, requiring the city manager to do the job full-time was both novel and controversial: At tonight’s City Council meeting a motion will be presented which specifically spells out one of the basic requirements of the…
Read More »Vote – The council authorized the city manager to enter into an agreement with Barbara Poole, a local artist, which will allow her to install sheer fabric panes of various colors in the openings of the brick wall of the former Appleton Mills building that runs along the Pawtucket Canal…
Read More »Moment of silence for M. Brendan Fleming, former mayor and city councilor, who passed away this week. Vote to authorize City Manager to enter into a Master Development Agreement with WinnDevelopment Co LP of Boston for the Hamilton Canal District. City Manager Murphy explains that a critical element of the…
Read More »Council suspends the rules to take private dormitory presentation and transgender opposition motion out of order. First the dormitory presentation: Manager Murphy opens by saying one of his goals has been to make Lowell more of a college town because college students have a lot of disposal income to spend.…
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