The Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners last month threw its support behind an effort to win a $3.5-million federal grant that would be used to help craft a regional plan to create sustainable and livable communities. The initiative centers on the principles of so-called smart growth, ripe with an emphasis on social equity for housing [...]
This week. In the mail. Courtesy of local GovCo. WBTV has the rundown here.
Would be nice to know how the Democrat majority on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners is feeling about the turbo-charged revenue projections it concocted to beef up the county budget, what with an ongoing commercial sector real estate implosion; home foreclosures in Mecklenburg tops in the state; the Charlotte-area’s average per-capita personal income tumbling nearly [...]
Former WBTV ace reporter Mike Cozza, who most recently fell victim to county budget cuts when he was axed as media relations go-to guy for Mecklenburg Parks and Rec, uses an Op-Ed in the uptown paper of record to effectively dismantle the silly notion that a global recession was the main culprit behind Mecklenburg’s budget [...]
Not in November at the polls; not even Tuesday night by commissioners, when George Dunlap’s motion to put a quarter-cent sales tax up for referendum didn’t even draw a second, much less any debate. But that didn’t prevent Dunlap, a Democrat, from rambling for nearly 10 minutes explaining why he didn’t necessarily support a new [...]
The tensions and controversy embroiling a nation in debate over how to best deal with illegal immigration bubbled to the surface Friday afternoon during a press conference at GOP Headquarters in Charlotte. Republicans Jim Pendergraph, Dan Ramirez and Corey Thompson, all three running for at-large seats on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, called for [...]
Birthday cake, that is. Recognizing that Mecklenburg County employees have gone two years without merit-pay raises, County Manager Harry Jones today delivered a surprise to help boost moral: an additional day of paid vacation for all county employees on their birthdays. The gesture won’t have any budgetary impact, said County Budget Director Hyong Yi, because [...]
It started with a simple request during a recent Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners meeting, when Chairman Jennifer Roberts asked her colleagues to approve a change to the minutes from the board’s June 15 meeting, which commissioners were preparing to adopt. As originally recorded, the minutes noted that the board had approved a five-year service [...]
Interesting sidebar to the uptown EpiCentre foreclosure and how it could directly impact your wallet when the county comes knocking next year with its property revaluation, and by extension bode ominously for the county’s continuing financial implosion. Jeff Taylor lays out how Afshin Ghazi, delinquent last year on paying EpiCentre’s $600,000 property tax bill, was [...]
Fresh from the uptown paper of record’s Department of Laughable Headlines: “Results unclear for Jacobsen’s UNCC work.” The results are positively clear and thoroughly damning: former Department of Social Services Director Jake Jacobsen lingered on the county’s payroll for three years, pocketing upwards of $168,000 annually, coasting until retirement while creating nothing of substantive value [...]
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