Last Tuesday’s Lowell City Council meeting had a mammoth agenda due to the March 14th meeting having been cancelled because of a snowstorm. Everything from that meeting’s agenda was rolled over to this week which had its own complement of motions responses and new motions. By 10 pm, the Council had just made it through the Motion Response section of the agenda. With at least 20 new motions awaiting action, the Council recessed the meeting to Saturday, March 25 (yesterday, if you’re reading this newsletter on Sunday). I was unable to watch the Saturday meeting live so nothing about it is included here. However, I will watch a replay and report on it next Sunday.
In the rush to make things more efficient, we certainly should take care not to automate incompetence.