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Lowell City work session pauses budget debate, votes to move into executive session on city manager vacancy
Summary
At a Lowell City work session, council members said the city manager left abruptly, raised confusion over multiple budget drafts and salary variances, and voted to close the public meeting and go into executive session to discuss hiring an interim city manager and personnel matters.
The Lowell City work session on the budget paused public deliberations after council members said the city manager had left abruptly, and members voted to move into an executive session to discuss hiring an interim city manager and other personnel matters.
Council members told the meeting they were juggling several different budget drafts with differing assumptions and numbers and said they lacked the city manager’s explanation to reconcile those versions. Scott, identified by the chair as the mayor pro tem, and other members said some drafts differed on salary lines and that one late draft included an…
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