Left In Lowell

Tomorrow night’s City Council meeting has a light agenda; well, if you can call introduction of the FY 2010 Budget light. But there is a Sub-Committee meeting scheduled; it is the Public Safety Sub-Committee (J. Milinazzo, Chair; R. Elliott; A. Kazanjian) meeting and the topic: Dangerous and Vicious Dogs. It will be held at 5:30 p.m. I am not sure why 5:30 and not 6:00 p.m. but I guess they think it will last a good hour.

This Sub-Committee meeting was triggered by the recent attack of a little girl by a pit bull.

The full City Council had taken up this issue this past January. Back then I wrote back then that “The 1-hour long public hearing and vote was the result of a September 23rd motion that was passed by the CC “Request the City Manager to have Animal Control and the Police Department to enforce the existing Leash Law and investigate instituting possible restrictions on Pit Bulls” As well all know the first part passed; the second one was postponed because dog lovers throughout the City came out and spoke against it.

Mark at mrmillcity wants those of you who own dogs to come down to City Hall again to “remind Bud who really runs the City.” He was there back in January; he was the one who closed his remarks by telling the Councilors that election time is coming and he will remember how they all voted on this issue.

I do not own a dog and I will never own one but it seems that the problem is lack of resources to enforce existing laws. I am not sure how extending the existing ordinance is going to prevent an idiot from training his dog to be vicious.

I got an email from someone moving to Lowell at the end of the month. I know I have another post requesting recommends but I can’t find it…anyway, Jackie has a recent one.

So this is a call for bragging about your favorite things about Lowell. It could be a business you like and trust (car mechanics come to mind), restaurants you love, things you love to do, websites you use to find things around here. Anything someone moving here in a month would find useful!

I’ll start with the obvious, since they will be here before July: the largest free Folk Festival in the US, last weekend in July. Also, historic tours through the Lowell National Historic Park. I particularly can recommend the canal boat tour, but there’s a lot more besides. I heard they may be adding a canal boat ride through the Hamilton Canal district! Now that would be really cool.

What would YOU recommend?