Across North Carolina our towns are allocating resources, creating innovative approaches, and doing all in their power to support local businesses and nonprofits. From opening up streets to opening up new funding sources, cities are ensuring that both the lifeblood of Main Street and the support system of the neighborhoods survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
As highlighted by the League throughout...
NCLM training ups cities' cyber defenses, awareness.
It was March 18, a little after 8:30 p.m., when Shelby Police Chief Jeff Ledford got the call that turned everything upside down.
On the other end of the line was the city’s 911 communications director. “We’ve got a problem,” he told Ledford.
The problem, Ledford learned in general terms, was that some form of...
Roughly a year ago now, I spoke to the members of Gov. Roy Cooper’s broadband task force and noted how, from the viewpoint of anyone looking objectively at the issue of broadband access, the public-private partnership model advocated by NCLM is a “no-brainer.”
Obviously, a lot has happened in the world since then. The legislation that our organization backed, the...
New staff advancement program launched in November.
Municipal leaders across North Carolina know, among other core functions, the League’s array of programs for general education, targeted development, team-building, and safety. It’s what we do, no matter the challenges of the day, in the spirit of working together for everyone’s advancement. But, because we practice what we preach, we also do...
As the challenging year of 2020 comes to close, the N.C. League of Municipalities and its Board of Directors made the decision that its voice needed to be loud and clear on the critical issues of racial equity.
The NCLM board, in November, announced the establishment of its Task Force on the Impact of City Leaders on Racial Equity. The...
A virtual on-demand education program.
Education has been a top-of-the-list priority for the League for decades. For our mayors and council members, we work to provide both foundational understanding of elected leadership and insight into the ever-changing challenges of the role. Towards legal and human resources issues, our staff is out in the field year round conducting trainings and courses...
When the Pew Charitable Trust’s publication Stateline took a look at struggling rural water and sewer systems around the country earlier this year, the story’s initial quote from a rural water system official in Mississippi stated, “We ain’t doing so hot.”
It is the same story for municipal rural water and sewer systems across the country and across the state....
Over the last several months, the NCLM Board of Directors and its leadership have been grappling with questions of how our organization can best address calls for social justice and racial equity.
As I noted in my previous column, these are not easy questions and there are no easy answers.
To begin to address systemic racism and how it affects individual...
Jacksonville, Hillsborough and cities across the state show how local resiliency and community assistance can be one in the same.
As with nearly every aspect of local government, the work often happens behind the scenes. Water, parks, trash: services get provided, every day and with little fanfare.
It follows, then, that the crises can fail to grab public attention as well....
In classroom history books of the future, the year 2020 is likely to have its own chapter, if not several. You can live under a rock today and still be fully aware of—for one—the nationwide (global, in fact) gust of marches and protests demanding raw awareness of enduring racial inequities. More specifically, the massive push has sought direct action...
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