Henderson City Council has a Special Called Meeting Friday, September 14 at 12:00 Noon in the municipal building at 134 Rose Avenue.
There is a public hearing regarding:
Consideration of Approval of Resolution 12-83. Authorizing the Submission of a Preliminary Application for the North Carolina Department of Commerce (NCDOC) 2012 CDBG Infrastructure Grant to Obtain Approval for Full Grant Application (CAF 12-123)
Please read the full details of this hearing here: SKMBT_75112091312390
Want to point out this special called meeting for Friday, seeking public input on the community block program!
As usual not only do they wait until the last minute to notify–the meeting is noon on Friday in Henderson–! Only in Henderson–and they seem to get away with it.
Prudence, I would agree with you if what the paper reported on Thursday was the stated purpose of Friday’s meeting. I did attend Friday’s special meeting of the City Council because the story on the front page of Thursday’s paper indicated the meeting was more than the City’s announcement posted on HiH.
As it turned out the meeting was as the City had stated to authorize the submission of a preliminary application for CDBG infrastructure grant hoping to obtain the funds to build new public water and sewer lines on Birch and Bobbitt Streets.
The Council was seeking public input favoring and disapproving the use of this grant money to build new water and sewer lines on Birch and Bobbitt Streets. Before the meeting was opened for the public input a spokesperson from the Council of Government was invited to speak. His presentation was to explain how the grant process works. It seemed to me that Ms. Erris Dunston had a complete idea on how this grant process works. Also the City Engineer’s presentation reveled he understood how this grant process works.
When the mayor did opened the meeting to the public he specifically asked for those favoring the grant to speak first, then he would allow time for those opposed. Two speakers spoke in the favoring time slot. One gave a mixed approval, the other was seeking grant money for another purpose altogether. One speaker spoke opposing the grant and he made his point.
This was a meeting to authorize the submission of a preliminary application for CDBG infrastructure grant hoping to obtain the funds and not a meeting; not a meeting for area planners, community leaders, development stakeholders, and anyone else to show up ready to share their ideas.
Red flags went up when I read the article in the Dispatch today–the word “mostly” for sewer–define mostly please council!