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County Manager Jerry Ayscue briefed the Intergovernmental Committee on the status of the project to bring a water system to Vance County.

The Intergovernmental Committee meeting held Monday afternoon at the Henderson Police Department’s conference room got off to an anticlimactic start.

The Intergovernmental Committee is slated to discuss the following subjects this afternoon:

Henderson City Council member Lynn Harper, chair of the city’s Finance and Intergovernmental Relations Committee, directed the report of her committee to the City Council at its regular meeting on Monday evening.

Former City Council contender Sara Coffey, proprietor of Coffey’s Bail Bonds and Private Investigations in Henderson, addressed the Henderson City Council yesterday evening concerning a message on the local Ku Klux Klan Hotline.

Here’s the City Council agenda for this evening:

Here are the state legislative priorities for Henderson taken from a document that was generated by the ad hoc committee after the last FAIR meeting on January 12:

During the January 9 regular City Council meeting, Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert reported the end of the city’s relationship with the Ferguson Group.

Council member Elissa Yount reported for the Journal Committee on January 9 that new recording equipment has not yet been purchased.

Council member Mary Emma Evans, chair of the Human Resources Committee, reported to the council on their December 16 meeting.

Because council member Bernard Alston, who chairs the committee, was not present at its meeting, committee member and council member Elissa Yount made the report to the council.

Council member Ranger Wilkerson, chair of the city’s Public Works Committee, reported several items at Monday’s City Council meeting.

Lonnie Davis, chair of the city’s Public Safety Committee, introduced an ordinance during Monday’s City Council meeting to lower the speed limit in the city’s West End to 25 miles per hour.

The Vance County Board of Education met Monday at the 7 p.m. at the Administrative Services Center.

Henderson Police Chief Glen Allen met with approximately 70 concerned citizens yesterday evening to discuss crime. The meeting was spurred by a recent home invasion on January 1. An elderly woman was severely beaten in that invasion.

Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert reported that the city’s fire insurance rating went from a Class 5 to a Class 4 during Monday evening’s regular City Council meeting.

The Vance County Board of Commissioners will meet tonight at 6:00 p.m. in their chambers in the old courthouse. Some items on the agenda are:

Here’s what the City Council plans to cover this evening at City Hall: