Putting experience to use in serving our firefighters.
Firefighters have one of the toughest, most wildcard, jobs out there. The risks they run any day of the week can have serious consequences, and T.J. Deluca knows. He’s gone from starting in 1987 with a volunteer squad to a firefighter with the City of New York Fire Department. Deluca currently still...
A new awards program is set to acknowledge the proactive, creative, and resourceful efforts of North Carolina cities and towns.
Coming from the League’s Local Leadership Foundation, winners are to be featured at a luncheon coinciding with the CityVision annual conference in Wilmington in April.
“This awards program will let them (the cities and towns of our state) elevate outstanding achievements...
At every stop along her career, Council member Nicole Stewart has found herself both as a leader and as a developer of future leaders. Now, as a foremost voice for a new perspective in Raleigh, she’s in that position again.
They don’t know how Nicole Stewart finds the time. As Raleigh’s Mayor Pro Tem, a mom of two, NC Conservation...
As the new Executive Director of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, I am excited and honored to have the opportunity to serve a group I find awe-inspiring: the cities and towns of North Carolina.
It’s a collection easy to be proud of. The work happening in each of our hometowns is nothing short of remarkable. There are of course...
The former Jacksonville Mayor Pro Tem and past League president on his freshman legislative service.
Michael Lazzara is one of the most familiar faces to the League in recent history. He served an extended term as League president while mayor pro tem of Jacksonville, emceed numerous events and conference sessions for gatherings of municipalities, oversaw various internal and external...
Annual conference yields new ideas, key conversations.
League staff members from across the Southeast recently got together in Wilmington for the annual Southern Municipal Conference, an event like many others that in 2020 was forced to the sidelines by the COVID-19 pandemic. With staffs from North Carolina and Kentucky coordinating as hosts, representatives from those two states and Alabama, Arkansas,...
Understanding the thoughts and opinions of our communities on the most important local issues.
In a representative democracy, knowing the thoughts and opinions of the people is crucial when it comes to setting policy and passing laws that reflect their will. That is the case whether at the local, state, or federal level.
It is why state constitutions require that state...
This summer, League member cities and towns, along with NCLM’s advocacy staff, faced a difficult situation when it came to our legislative priorities.
After months of hard work making the case for our infrastructure needs, particularly in light of the financial and economic challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the state budget proposals put together by legislators provided a substantial...
Never before has money flowed directly to our cities and towns like it has with ARP. How will the money be used? How should the money be used?
In early August 2021, leaders from Wayne County and its seven municipalities gathered to discuss the American Rescue Plan. On this day, the topic was priorities.
American Rescue Plan, or ARP, questions will...
The Issue that Just Won't Go Away.
In the words of the late, great Yogi Berra, it is déjà vu all over again … during this year’s legislative session. Maybe not exactly, but NCLM and its members have been refighting some of the previous year’s battles over land-use planning policy that, to some degree, looked to have been put to...
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