The Town of Farmville represents all that is great about North Carolina communities. Its history is evident in each brick façade. Its strategy for success is straightforward—rather than chasing size, the focus is investment into its own key assets, which include a strong parks and recreation department and a burgeoning arts scene.
New businesses, improved quality of life, and a...
Local Leaders are Uniquely Positioned to Address This Issue. The League is Here to Help.
Equity and equality. Not the same thing. A small lesson. But understanding that point clears up so much about the race conversation—one that, no matter the media focus or best efforts, still seems siloed.
Absorbing the core context and vocabulary is the essential step toward a...
For municipalities and by municipalities, the League’s add-on, free-of-charge insurance services provide unparalleled value to members.
With immensely strong pools, exceedingly competitive costs and plans geared specifically toward municipalities, insurance from the North Carolina League of Municipalities is nearly always the most attractive coverage option for cities and towns.
And that’s only at the most basic level. Take into account the...
Attacks on local land-use authority have been the biggest thorn in the sides of cities and towns when it comes to policy proposals at the General Assembly.
Every year, dozens of bills are filed by state legislators calling for limitations on how cities and towns provide for zoning or other land uses. Sometimes the changes are small; sometimes great. Sometimes...
From the moment he knew his hometown could do better, Mayor Don Hardy has dedicated his life to Kinston with a born-to-serve approach.
Don Hardy’s route to the Mayor’s office began in waist-high water.
It was five years ago. Jumping from his SUV, he waded into the homes of friends and neighbors trapped by the flood of Hurricane Matthew. He’d maneuver...
Ensuring continuity of leadership, this NCLM service has proven extraordinarily successful.
Jim Freeman retired. And went right back to work. There was almost no free will in the matter. Sure, Freeman, who managed an array of North Carolina cities and towns over the course of his career, could have declined—money wasn’t the situation. But he felt compelled.
“We need to give...
The League’s quarterly legislator Q&A.
As a working mother of young children, Senator Sydney Batch of Apex isn’t the General Assembly’s usual demographic. Of course, it’s no secret that it’s been easier for the retired or independently wealthy to run for busy elected office—like state House or Senate—as “part time” lawmakers who, between legislative sessions and interim committee meetings, are...
Recognized for Dedicated Service to North Carolina Cities and Towns.
Before his passing in September at the too-young age of 60, following a difficult battle with cancer, former mayor of Goldsboro Chuck Allen was the recipient of the N.C. League of Municipalities’ Meritorious Lifetime Membership Award, recognizing his outstanding service to North Carolina’s cities and towns.
The award, from the organization’s...
A Satisfactory Conclusion to a Complex Problem.
It was not a problem of cities’ making, but it is one that they must address later this year and next year. It also was not one that they could fix on their own. They needed the General Assembly’s help.
State lawmakers delivered that help in late June, passing legislation that will allow some...
Over the last several weeks, the League of Municipalities has been diligently working to help member cities and towns prepare as American Rescue Plan funding is made available to each.
No work is more crucial right now.
Working with Governor Roy Cooper’s administration, State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s office, state agencies, the N.C. Association of County Commissioners and the UNC School of...
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