The North Carolina League of Municipalities is a one-stop shop for its members. In practice, this means that we are whatever you—our cities and towns—need us to be. For municipal insurance, we’re your provider. For day-to-day consultation and assistance, we’re in the field and always available. For advocacy at the legislature, for information on best practices, for legal support—for...
Honor recognizes legislators’ work representing the needs of cities and towns.
Sen. Michael Lazzara and Rep. John Bell have been named this year’s Community Champions for their work understanding and representing the needs of cities and towns. The awards were presented at CityVision 2022 during the NCLM President’s Dinner and Awards Ceremony held April 28 at the Wilmington Convention Center.
Senator...
Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler to lead NCLM over next year
Strong organizations require strong leadership, and the most recent elections of officers and board members for the N.C. League of Municipalities shows that the organization should have strong leaders for years to come.
Announced at CityVision 2022, League members from across North Carolina chose Kings Mountain Mayor Scott Neisler to...
Looking at a pressing issue this legislative session
In April, two people were killed and 14 others injured when a party being held in a rented home through the Airbnb platform in Philadelphia turned violent.
The two people killed, along with many of the others there, were minors, even as the Airbnb rules prohibited minors from renting homes. The rental agreement...
For several years, North Carolina firefighters have sought changes to the state’s workers’ compensation system to create a legal presumption that certain cancers were caused by exposures related to their work.
It’s an understandable goal. Firefighters can be exposed to carcinogenic materials as a part of their job, and it is certainly a dangerous job. But the proposal would have...
It seems inconsistent: pandemic-related, record-level job losses while employers report their own hardships in finding workers. But that’s the nature of what analysts have called one of the strangest labor shortages in memory. Nationally, employers have reported too-tight talent pools or general hard times retaining staff. While much of the labor-shortage news spotlight is usually either broad-talking or sector-specific,...
On a recent drive, Southern City rolled through the ever-growing Wake County town of Fuquay-Varina and stopped at a few spots for photos of the activity. It’s a vision of a successfully managed town. Even in the winter cold, the town of about 35,000 residents showed plenty of foot traffic for the lunch hour, with patrons popping into hip...
The American Rescue Plan offers a generational opportunity for our municipalities, not just to recover from the pandemic, but to thrive well into the future. It is this forward-looking aspect of the ARP that is most consequential. How best can we utilize this money to create a lasting impact?
All across North Carolina, cities and towns are developing plans and...
Cities, towns, and villages have been calling on Congress to get to work on an infrastructure package since 2016, and on November 15, 2021, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act was signed into law by President Joe Biden surrounded by city leaders and Members of Congress. Also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), this $1.2 trillion bill was...
It may largely fly under the public radar, but cities and towns have been paying significantly more into the Local Government Employees’ Retirement System (LGERS) these past years and the increases do not seem to be ending anytime soon. The system is under stress.
The state and local pension system and its defined benefit structure plays an important role in...
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