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Council delays vote on home-rule petition to centralize school facilities functions
Summary
After heated debate and public comment, Lowell City Council voted to continue consideration of a draft home-rule petition that would authorize consolidation of some school committee administrative functions with the city. Councilors requested a joint subcommittee meeting with the school committee and additional review; the matter was continued for four weeks.
Lowell City Council voted to continue for four weeks its consideration of a draft home-rule petition that would authorize consolidation of certain School Committee administrative and facilities functions with the city.
Councilor Robinson, who filed the draft as a way to break a multiyear impasse, said his aim was to create a centralized facilities department to improve maintenance and accountability but emphasized he did not support privatization.…
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