At the Dracut High School auditorium on Monday evening, we will have the annual spring town meeting.
Some of the key items on this year’s town meeting agenda are the annual budgets for the schools and town, an article calling for the town and state to purchase an Agricultural Restriction for a farm along Parker Road [...]

Chairman Malliaros was still out on sick leave.. so we had Joe DiRocco chairing.
The meeting did review the articles for the upcoming Town Meeting.
TOWN MEETING MONDAY, 7:30 at the HIGH SCHOOL
There are only a few, and some are being tabled until June.
There is one fairly important one though. Back in June, the town meeting voted [...]

Federal Election
McCain. Its a done deal.
The people running Obama’s election admit that they used Patrick as a test to see if their method would work.
In the end we got a governor who put us 1.4 Billion in debt, with the people so upset about it that they are pushing to eliminate the income tax itself.
Cuts [...]

The Lowell Sun reports that we are once again afraid that we will not meet a Town Meeting quorum next week.
With very few items on the warrant, there is little to draw people out other than the feasibility study article.
Finance committee chair Gary Marsella spoke with us last Saturday on 980 WCAP about discussions that [...]

 

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The Town Clerk has posted the Nov 3 Town Meeting Warrant on the town website.
I notice a couple returns from the spring town meeting, a request to add or increase the fee to tax demands (probably ok, but I hate to add new fees and taxes), the school feasibility study item is there…
But what is [...]

In the Lowell Sun Political column this week, School Committee members Matt Sheehan and MIke Miles point out their reasoning once again on bringing to the town meeting an article limiting the hiring of former school committee members by the school district:
Sheehan and Miles realized that they had the choice to either bring the issue [...]

I know we just had a long School Committee meeting tonite, and I will get back to that.

There was some great discussion on the new alternative education for at-risk youth, as well as some improved Special Education programs.
I did stop by just to quickly ask Matt Sheehan about the proposal he has put in for [...]

We were done before 9:00 pm. If we can keep that up, I can see less fear of quorum problems in the future.
First, the dismissal of Article 2-1 bothered me.
Last fall when an article was proposed to remove the Fire and Police Chiefs from Civil Service, Leo McMahon from the Dracut Firefighter’s Union drove through [...]

Tonite is the annual spring town meeting, to be held at the high school auditorium starting at 7:30 pm.
There is not a great number of controversial issues on the warrant, so it is predicted that this will be a quick meeting.
Dennis Shaughnessey does a good job summarizing the interesting articles in the Sun.
Of course, this [...]