# Lynn City Council Meeting & Committee Meetings | October 13, 2026


**Body:** Lynn Community Television
**Date:** October 12, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Energy & Utilities, Construction & Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding


Lynn City Council and committee meetings, October 13, 2026. The council unanimously authorized the mayor to execute a municipal aggregation consultant agreement with Mass Power Choice LLC, following committee support. The program would aggregate electricity purchasing for residents and businesses, with the stated goals of price stability, potential savings, and an option for greener electricity; no contract amount was stated. The Utilities Committee approved multiple National Grid and Comcast petitions for poles, conduit, underground facilities, and service connections, including work for a new business at 150 Blossom Street. Several approvals included conditions to restore disturbed sidewalks or streets. The full council also approved a National Grid easement for pole replacements and an anchor installation on Summer Street. FY27 school-related allocations included $180,000 for comprehensive school health services, $65,325 for an Innovation Career Pathway program, and $250,000 for continued support of the city’s Arts and Science Academy; other allocation amounts in the transcript were unclear. The Citizen Advisory Board described community-development funding priorities, including CDBG and ESG-supported housing, youth, public-space, and homelessness programs, and reported 28 applicant organizations requesting a combined approximately $1.48 million; this was a presentation, not an award vote.

The Committee of the Whole held public discussion about the city’s existing Flock automated license plate reader system and its 23 cameras. Residents raised privacy, data-sharing, oversight, and transparency concerns; the police chief described revised safeguards, including access limited to lieutenants and above, seven-day data retention, and weekly audits. The council unanimously approved a motion for regular police-department status updates, legal review of oversight and ordinance options, and a return to the issue with community input within 90 days, planned for the first meeting in January. The existing system’s contract cost was not provided; removal was estimated at about $500 per camera, or roughly $12,000. The Downtown Development Committee also heard public comments on homelessness and the city task force, including discussion of possible future ordinance options, but took no procurement action or vote on a camping ban.

**Source:** Lynn Community Television