city budgets

Great Headline, and a fact filled article fom the Lowell Sun.

Council gets a tough task done right!

LOWELL -- The quick coming together of the Lowell City Council in regard to the city's new fiscal budget is a good sign of maturity and common sense by the elected body.

The council could have played games and tweaked some numbers, but instead recognized this was a reasonable compromise for spending over the next 12 months that won't kill taxpayers, won't harm city workers, won't reduce city services, won't see huge increases in fees and will continue investing in the future of Lowell.

The Lawrence Eagle Tribune tells the story of a hard working public official doing all he can to save money in the face of escalating costs. Any ideas for Joe Piantedosi?  

Joe Piantedosi does everything he can to save the town of Andover money on energy bills. But there's one thing the director of plant and facilities can't control — the price of gas.