Jim Humphrey attended the NC BOT meeting on Wednesday, November 4, 2009. Below are his notes. Thanks Jim for sharing!
Highlights
-The BOT will consider changing design standards and public notification processes/requirements for noise abatement walls in the next months. The long time between adoption of environmental documents and actual construction of NCDOT […]
Charlotte urban loop to be built with help of private funds (WRAL.com)
A public-private partnership will help finish construction on Charlotte’s Interstate 485 outer loop five years sooner than expected and will save the state $50 million to $100 million, Gov. Beverly Perdue said Monday.
Construction could begin by mid-2010 and be complete by 2015.
Unlike plans to […]
Mayoral Elections Show Strength for Most Incumbents (U.S. Conference of Mayors)
New Leaders Coming to Miami, Charlotte, Dayton, Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, other Cities
By David W. Burns
Despite much of the national attention on gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, over a hundred cities across the country held elections for mayor on November 3, many of which […]
Unemployment Concentrated in Metro Areas (US Conference of Mayors)
The Conference of Mayors recently conducted a survey of its Workforce Development Council members regarding local unemployment rates. In many cases, cities were able to provide not only unemployment rates for the metropolitan
areas, but also for the city proper. Some staggering unemployment numbers were found in this […]
Happening Now in Cities/ Metro Areas (US Conference of Mayors Budget Survey)
In an effort to better understand the employment and city budget crises faced by cities today, the Conference of Mayors conducted a brief survey of America’s mayors. One hundred and fifty cities ranging in size from Los Angeles and Chicago to those having populations […]
Senate Action to Extend SAFETEA-LU No Longer Imminent (AASHTO Journal)
As reported in Transportation Weekly, Senate leaders are delaying plans to take up a six-month extension of the surface transportation act and it doesn’t appear such legislation will be taken up any time soon.
It had been expected that leadership in the Senate would attempt to […]
Lawmakers return to NC capital to talk sales tax (AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers returned Tuesday to resume conversations on overhauling the state’s tax system as soon as next spring after House and Senate Democrats couldn’t agree on a plan before the Legislature adjourned in August.
A joint House-Senate finance committee held the first of […]
Foxx pledges to sign climate agreement (Charlotte Observer)
New mayor, backed by a Democratic majority on City Council, hopes to change city’s direction on several issues.
Anthony Foxx said his first act as Charlotte mayor will be to sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which incumbent Republican Pat McCrory refused to do.
More than a dozen N.C. […]
Anthony Foxx’s mayoral lesson plans (Charlotte Observer)
Now that you’ve won, Mr. Foxx, you surely won’t lack for advice.
As the first Democratic mayor of Charlotte since Harvey Gantt left office in 1987, as only the second African-American mayor in this Southern city’s history, and as the first mayor in 14 years not named Pat McCrory, you’ll […]
White House to Mayor-elect Foxx: Can you take a call? (Charlotte Observer)
Resting at home a day after he was elected Charlotte’s new mayor, Democrat Anthony Foxx got a call from an aide. Could he take a call from President Obama?
He could.
“He congratulated me,” Foxx said today at his Elizabeth Avenue headquarters. “They were clearly watching […]
