During today’s meeting of the Henderson City Council, City Manager Jerry Moss will respond to allegations from the local chapter of the NAACP that city workers from the Sanitation and Public Works Departments were improperly terminated on the basis of polygraph testing.
Other subjects to be taken up by the Council include:
* Asbestos inspection proposals for the David Street CDBG project will be considered.
* The FAIR Committee will discuss the city priorities for submission to legislators. It will also discuss the status of an audit that is currently being conducted as well as present monthly financial reports for November and December.
* The Community Development Committee will update the Council on the status of the David Street CDBG project.
* The Public Safety Committee will update the Council on the revisions to the Graffiti Ordinance, and it will also discuss regulation and permits as they pertain to open burning in the city.
* The Public Works Committee will discuss the Chevasse Avenue widening project. As of the last Council meeting, funds appropriated by the North Carolina House and Senate had not yet been transferred to the City so that the project may proceed. The Committee will also discuss a commercial recycling proposal.
* The Public Utilities Committee is slated to discuss a water allotments from the Kerr Lake Regional Water System letter from Oxford, the Nethery Street sewer repair, and the Earth Tech Invoice.
The Committee will also provide a drought policy ordinance update, discuss the KLRWS financial report and legislative priorities, present a stormwater containment report, and discuss a utility rate study.
* The Human Resources Committee is scheduled to discuss the per diem travel policy and the chaperone policy for city-approved trips (which it has failed to do for several meetings running). It will also discuss performance appraisals and a smoking policy for public buildings.
* The Land Planning and Development Committee may discuss Armory covenants, should the Vance County Commission agree to cede its portion of that building to the Boys and Girls Club, Vance County Unit. That decision may come at the Commission’s meeting tonight.
It will also talk about city-owned properties, the dispostion of the former Rose Avenue Library, city properties suitable for land conservancy, uses for the former Police Station, a grant application for design work on the former Police Station, the appraisal of the potentially gifted Jenkins property, and GIS tracking/land use.
The complete City Council agenda may be viewed here.