Dracut Forum

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 [...]

The weather’s been good, there’s not a lot on the warrant that will draw people in.
There is a lot of fear this week that we will not have enough people in attendance to meet the quorum requirement of 250 to hold town meeting on Monday Night.. June 2nd.
A good number of parents will be off [...]

I’ve provided for your perusal a PDF file of the June 2008 Town Meeting warrant.
I don’t see a lot of surprises here, but things change as we learn more about the details.
Article 14 talks about purchasing equipment for the fire and police departments.. don’t know what that is about yet.
Chapter 80 betterment assessments request in [...]

Voters in North Andover voted overwhelmingly to change their form of government in a non-binding referendum (Eagle Tribune story):
Residents also voted overwhelmingly in favor of a nonbinding question on whether the town should replace the Open Town Meeting form of government. The question, which brought out passionate arguments on both sides during the campaign, received [...]

By Dennis Shaughnessey, Lowell Sun
DRACUT - Selectman George Malliaros showed up to Town Meeting with a baseball glove and a ball, just for emphasis.
” I’m a firm believer that if you want to keep kids off drugs, give them a ball field,” Malliaros said, moments after Town Meeting approved a $ 1.34 mil­lion appropriation to [...]