As I’ve traveled around this year, visiting our communities and meeting with the tireless public servants that lead them, I’ve been consistently reminded of the mission behind the League—of who we work for and why we do the work we do.
That notion has been particularly felt in the past few months. With summer turning to fall, it is a...
Networking, education, and a visit from Governor Roy Cooper.
It was the biggest week of the year for the North Carolina League of Municipalities.
As our government affairs staffers were hard at work at the Legislative Building in Raleigh for the lawmaking scramble known as “crossover” (a live-or-die point for most bills), hundreds of municipal leaders were in Concord for the...
The following are excerpts from “Local Governments Responding: The Housing Crisis in North Carolina, a report recently issued by NCLM and the N.C. Association of County Commissioners, and based on survey data taken from the fastest growing planning jurisdictions in the state. Please utilize these findings to help make the case that local governments are taking positive steps to...
Seven years into NCLM’s Strategic Plan, a review of the many successes and strides towards accomplishing Vision 2030’s six main goals.
All across the membership of the NC League of Municipalities, we see incredible successes. When viewed through the lens of our strategic plan, Vision 2030, those achievements take on added significance.
Around 2014, the League kicked off its strategic planning...
Through generous state support, the NC League has launched a number of services designed to support your investment and accounting of American Rescue Plan funds.
For a bit of background…
The federal American Rescue Plan Act was signed into law on March 11, 2021. Among its many provisions was the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program, which directed funds...
Civility in local government is similar to the guardrails on a highway—providing structure by which municipal leaders and the public can navigate around each other. Securing the travel lanes provides mutual safety for people heading in all directions.
When civility breaks down, however, people and perspectives collide—resulting in misunderstandings and disagreements that can harm relationships and fracture a community’s sense...
Travel around North Carolina and the wonder of our cities will be on full display, in towns large and small alike. These places are our economic engines and our hubs of both history and community, and they are the reason North Carolina has become the toast of the nation.
While the greatness of our cities is evident, however, the work...
Cities are among the biggest electricity users in the state, so it should come as no surprise that the League of Municipalities takes an active role when it comes to requests by the state’s primary electricity providers, Duke Energy, to increase rates.
Five years ago, NCLM and Duke Energy Carolinas (mostly covering the western half of the state) reached a...
With a focus on balance and all parts working together, Mayor Jody McLeod has leveraged a unique skillset to take Clayton to the next level.
Mayor Jody McLeod isn’t your typical local leader, and he’ll be the first to tell you.
“I’m not the usual,” he said. “I’m the unusual.”
Ordinary or not, there’s no arguing he’s a mainstay. For more than...
Constructive relationships, his prior roles as a mayor and council member, the fast-growing sport of pickleball, and how it all relates
It wasn’t just the clean, spring weather that made the pickleball courts at Knightdale’s Harper Park so active on the day Southern City pulled up for a visit. The easy temperature and sunny vibrance commanded outdoor fun, yes, but...
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