Rocky Mount Event Center Archives - The Community Council

Tarboro St broken promises and broken contracts with a lot of hyperbole justifying actions

Parking is a premium in Downtown Rocky Mount. To attract downtown investors city officials have made promises and have even entered into contracts regarding parking. Many of these promises and legal contracts center around the Tarboro St parking, that is now being explored to make workforce housing. We have assembled below the reporting by the Rocky Mount Telegram along with emails they obtained. Also, assembled are copies of contracts, press releases, video links and other source material.

Many have concerns about ...

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APR

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Uncategorized

Tags: Andre Knight, Charles Penny, Chris Carroll Miller, Chris Miller, City Manager, David Combs, Downtown Community Facility, ECC, Edgecombe Community College, Edgecombe County, Lamont Wiggins, Lois Watkins, Mayor David Combs, Reuben Blackwell, RMECDC, Rochelle D. Small-Toney, Rochelle Small-Toney, Rocky Mount, Rocky Mount City Council, Rocky Mount Event Center, Tom Rogers, Transparency, W.B. Bullock

Check It Out with Guest Lige Daughtridge – City of Rocky Mount questionable ethics issues discussed along with finances

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

City of Rocky Mount questionable ethics issues discussed along with finances. Check It Out with Guest Lige Daughtridge. Video available on the WHIG-TV YouTube channel.

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JAN

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Categories: Crime, Rocky Mount Event Center, Uncategorized

Tags: Andre Knight, Charles Penny, Chris Carroll Miller, Chris Miller, City Manager, Corruption, David Combs, Downtown Community Facility, Government Waste, Lamont Wiggins, Lois Watkins, Reuben Blackwell, Rochelle Small-Toney, Rocky Mount, Rocky Mount City Council, Rocky Mount Event Center, School of Government at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Tom Rogers, Transparency, W.B. Bullock

To the Taxpayers of Rocky Mount, NC…How much more are you willing to pay?

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

The FY 2019 proposed budget for the City of Rocky Mount calls for a 3.8% property tax rate increase and increases spending by 9.13%. If approved the tax rate for Rocky Mount will have increased 13.22% ($0.605 to $0.685) since 2017.$2,028,530 of the increase is to pay for the Rocky Mount Event Center while the rest is to fund thirteen new positions which includes the creation of a third Assistant City Manager. When the Event Center was ...

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2
JUN

5

Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes, Uncategorized

Tags: Andre Knight, Chris Miller, David Combs, Downtown Community Facility, Government Waste, Lois Watkins, Reuben Blackwell, Rochelle Small-Toney, Tom Rogers, W.B. Bullock

3.8% property tax rate increase and 9.13% spending increase

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

The FY 2019 proposed budget for the City of Rocky Mount calls for a 3.8% property tax rate increase and increases spending by 9.13%. If approved the tax rate for Rocky Mount will have increased 13.22% ($0.605 to $0.685) since 2017.$2,028,530 of the increase is to pay for the Rocky Mount Event Center while the rest is to fund thirteen new positions which includes the creation of a third Assistant City Manager. When the Event Center was ...

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MAY

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes, Uncategorized

Tags: Andre Knight, Chris Miller, David Combs, Downtown Community Facility, Government Waste, Lois Watkins, Mayor David Combs, Rochelle Small-Toney, Rocky Mount, Rocky Mount City Council, Rocky Mount Event Center, Tom Rogers, Transparency, W.B. Bullock

Did the Rocky Mount City Council violate the open meetings law?

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

“The Rocky Mount City Council may have violated open meetings laws recently when hiring an interim manager, a consultant for the Downtown Event Center and a new city manager, according to a public records law professor.” according to the June 4, 2017 Rocky Mount Telegram article by Lindell John Kay

To read the article click on the following link Public votes not taken on city hires

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JUN

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Categories: Crime, Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes, Uncategorized

Tags: Andre Knight, Charles Penny, Chris Carroll Miller, Frayda Bluestein, Lamont Wiggins, Lois Watkins, Mayor David Combs, Open Meetings Law, Reuben Blackwell, Rochelle Small-Toney, Rocky Mount City Council, School of Government at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Steve Raper, Tom Rogers, Transparency, W.B. Bullock

New Market Tax Credit financing for the Rocky Mount Event Center and OIC wellness center

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

The city of Rocky Mount approves New Market Tax Credit financing for the Event Center and the wellness center operated by OIC. OIC will received $1.00 yearly rent for 4,500 square feet.

See agenda with detail

See detail of New Market Tax Credit information and OIC lease

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APR

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center

Community Center wont’t save Rocky Mount

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

Link to Carolina Journal Commentary by Julie Tisdale – https://goo.gl/d3in7h

Julie Tisdale is city and county policy analyst for the John Locke Foundation.

carolinajournal.com and johnlocke.org

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JAN

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes

Carolina Journal – Community center would add debt without taxpayer OK

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

Click on image to link to newspaper. Turn to pages 8 and 9.

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1
JAN

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes

Tags: Downtown Community Facility, Edgecombe County, Government Waste, Rocky Mount, Rocky Mount Event Center

Rocky Mount Event Center: An Unwise Burden For Taxpayers

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

Insightful spotlight on the proposed Rocky Mount Event Center by Julie Tisdale of the John Locke Foundation. Please click on the image to link to the pdf or go to https://goo.gl/gjFAPd to view the article.

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10
DEC

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes

Event Center – $2.5 million for land that’s only worth $1 million

Posted by: TheCommunityCouncil

The spending spree the City of Rocky Mount leaders have spent and propose to spend on the “proposed” Event Center is not sustainable. This type of spending is not sustainable for private citizens because private citizens do not have the legal authority to raise your taxes without your vote like the Rocky Mount City Council.

One example of why the Event Center is going to cost citizens $51 million is how they are paying for land.

The owners of the site where ...

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12
NOV

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Categories: Rocky Mount Event Center, Taxes