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Methuen charter review panel says more time needed, approves Articles 7–9 and schedules next steps
Summary
At a September 2025 Charter Review Committee meeting, members approved Articles 7, 8 and 9, agreed the draft will go to the Collins Center and the solicitor for review, and said the committee will likely not meet the Oct. 1 completion target and now expects to finish in early 2026. The panel set follow-up work and a next meeting date.
The Methuen City Charter Review Committee met in September 2025 and voted to approve Articles 7, 8 and 9 of the proposed charter revisions while saying the full review will take longer than some council members had hoped.
The committee’s chair opened the meeting and told members the group would not be ready to meet an Oct. 1 deadline requested by a councilor. “I made it clear that we’re not gonna be ready by October 1,” the chair said, adding that the committee had faced attendance and room-availability issues and that a realistic completion target was “probably February.” The chair said the committee will send the revisions to the Collins Center and to the solicitor for review, hold a public hearing after those reviews, and then forward the…
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