Government
The Town of Chapel Hill is proposing a system to provide public financing to candidates that can demonstrate a base level of community support. This can be a great way to help candidates focus more on talking to voters and less time on raising money.
The Council discussed this at their meeting tonight. Did anyone else watch this? If so, can you explain Kevin Wolff's comments, because I didn't find him especially coherent. He kept calling himself "viable" and claimed that incumbents running for re-election was hypocritical.
Chapel Hill is the first municipality in North Carolina to receive legislative authorization to provide a locally funded public campaign financing program. Session Law 2007-222 provides the following key requirements.
OK, now this sounds like fun. Or at least quite interesting. Let's all go!
Press release from Orange County:
Contact:
Tracy Reams, Director, Orange County Board of Elections,
245-2351
The public is invited to see a demonstration of
the voting process and the procedures in place to ensure all ballots are counted
accurately.
The Orange County Board of Elections wants to
ensure that the voters of Orange County have complete confidence in the voting
system. The Board of Elections will demonstrate the voting machines on
Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at the Orange Enterprise Building located
at 500 Valley Forge Rd, Hillsborough, NC.
For additional information, please contact
the Orange County Board of Elections (919) 245-2350.
Date:
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 9:00am
Location:
Orange Enterprise Building located at 500 Valley Forge Rd, Hillsborough
Notice via the Downtown Partnership:
The
Town of Chapel Hill will hold a public information meeting to discuss
preliminary recommendations for emergency call boxes and pedestrian
level street lighting in the downtown area of Chapel Hill.
Town
staff will discuss and seek input from the public regarding preliminary
recommendations for emergency call boxes and pedestrian level street
lighting in the Northside neighborhood, Cameron-McCauley neighborhoods
and Rosemary Street between Hillsborough and Boundary streets. For more information, contact Engineering Services Manager Kumar Neppalli at 969-5093 or e-mail publicaffairs@townofchapelhill.org.
Tuesday, April 8
7:00 pm
Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. BLVD
Date:
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 3:00pm
Location:
Chapel Hill Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
Here are some hastily scribbled notes from last night's forum to meet the new cast of county commissioner candidates hosted by the Dem Women of OC.
From the DWOC handouts :
OC is going to a 7 member CC Plan; D1 = 3 members, D2 = 2 members + 2 "At Large" members. District 1 is the 71,389 people in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School District. District 2 is the 44,142 of us that make up the rest of the rest of the county. In 2008 4 commissioners will be elected. D1 gets 2 seats, D2 gets one seat and one "At-Large" seat. 3 Commishes are not up for re-election until 2010: Alice Gordon, Barry Jacobs and Mike Nelson.
From notes:
Valerie Foushee D1 - (D-CH) uncontested "safe seat" - spoke on community mental health needs and diversity in housing, said state offered current county commissioners only 2 choices in raising taxes: land transfer tax or sales tax, which she sees as more regressive
Mary M. Wolfe - At Large -- absent
It’s budget time again and the good bet is that our taxes will increase. For those who desire/need a historical refresher, read the 2007 OP thread, "No Chapel Hill Tax Increase!"
I never got an answer on what not raising taxes in 2007 would do to the cost of things in 2008. Take a look at the budget documents for this year. The Mayor was quoted in the morning CHH saying that it might take a five cent increase per $100 valuation to fund the forecasted deficit.
And of course, rereading last year’s thread reminded me hom many folks told me that not having an increase last year had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that it was a Council election year!
Let the games begin! Council members are expected to adopt the budget on June 9.
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