Tar River Reservoir and Dam information – http://thecommunitycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Tar-River-Reservoir-and-Dam-information.pdf
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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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Please click on the link to read the letter from the Trustees of Edgecombe Community College to Rocky Mount City Council, Rocky Mount City Manager, NC Housing Finance Agency Board Members, and DFI Project Manager regarding the Proposed Affordable Housing Development on Existing Shared
Parking Lots.
Link to pdf – http://thecommunitycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/ECC_Trustee_Letter_to_RM_City_Council.pdf
Link to WHIG video of Edgecombe Community College President Dr. Gregory McLeod and Chairman of the board Dr. Jerry Price – https://www.facebook.com/WHIGTV/videos/380403312559035/
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It appears the Citizens of Rocky Mount are paying Rocky Mount Edgecombe Community Development Corporation (RMECDC) tons of money to not manage the Douglas Block:
Click here to view a copy of the legal document: http://thecommunitycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Douglas-Block-Settlement-Agreement-and-Mutual-Release.pdf
Continue Reading →Link to the pdf: http://thecommunitycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2017-08-02-Rocky-Mount-Downtown-Strategies-Final-Draft-LOW-RES.pdf
The Rocky Mount City Council voted to conduct this study and it was presented to the City Council. There was never a vote on this study the citizens of Rocky Mount paid for as it appears it did not meet the narative of a few or all of the City Council.
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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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Reporting by Rocky Mount Telegram – Primarily Staff Writer Lindell John Kay unless otherwise noted.
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2019/01/15/City-pays-to-settle-discrimination-lawsuit.html
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2019/01/16/New-director-to-lead-parks-department.html
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/News/2019/01/17/Agency-leader-resigns.html
City official still lives out ...
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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 ...
Continue Reading →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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Rumor has it the latest departure from the City of Rocky Mount is Assistant City Manager Thomas Moton who is rumored to be heading to Wilmington. He was preceded by the January 13, 2018 departure of Assistant City Manager Tasha Logan Ford to Winston-Salem.
In October 2017, Ken Graves left the city to become Assistant City Manager of Greenville, NC. There have been other recent departures.
Currently the city is actively looking to fill the following positions due to departures:
• Two (2) ...
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