Category: News

Here’s the city’s agenda for tonight’s meeting at City Hall:

The Henderson City Council unanimously approved a motion to allow Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert to sign a interim water storage contract.

The Henderson City Council voted unanimously to offer Jerry L. Moss the position of Interim City Manager.

City Attorney John Zollicoffer began this portion of Monday night’s meeting of the Henderson City Council by advising the council that those outside of city government cannot be privy to job applications. They way around it, he told the council, is to name outsiders to a search committee and designate that committee as an official body of the city so it can review personnel records.

At Monday night’s City Council meeting, Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert announced that meetings will begin at 7:00 p.m. beginning with the first January meeting.

Earlier, the article “von Williams, family, accuse SRO” reported that Deryl von Williams had stated that attorney Mike Satterwhite had contacted Judge Henry Banks. This was a factual error. In fact, von Williams reported that juvenile intake officer Terry Satterwhite had contacted Judge Henry Banks. We apologize to Mr. Mike Satterwhite for this mistake.

Former write-in candidate for City Council Deryl von Williams brought a complaint against the school resource officer at Henderson Middle School to Monday evening’s council meeting.

Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert announced to the City Council at Monday night’s meeting that a new water storage contract has been presented by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Henderson Fire Department Fire Fighter Brad Knutson was presented the city’s Medal of Valor by Fire Chief Danny Wilkerson at Monday evening’s City Council meeting.

Special Note: A Holiday Open House is scheduled for the public on Monday, December 19th from 6:30-7:30 PM at the Municipal Building!

The Vance County Board of Education met Monday night in the Administrative Services Center.

Loree Adams, MSW and Sgt. Keith Garner of the Henderson Police Department presented a public seminar on gang awareness at Eaton-Johnson Middle School on Thursday night.

In its second-ever item of business, the new Henderson City Council elected member Ranger Wilkerson as its new Mayor Pro-Tempore.

Members of the press were given this written statement by Henderson Mayor Clem Seifert during Monday night’s City Council meeting. We give it to you here verbatim:

In a five-to-three vote, the new Henderson City Council declined to re-appoint City Manager Eric Williams.

The Vance County Board of Commissioners plans to cover the following items during its regular meeting today:

Here’s what else happened at Monday’s City Council meeting:

There were several appearances by residents at the Henderson city council meeting on Monday evening. Iris Castellon-Dethmers appeared before the council to request that it act on a petition to reduce the speed limit in the Old West End section of the city. Castellon-Dethmers is the current president of the Old West End Neighborhood Association and a resident of 224 W. Belle Street.

A public hearing and council discussion regarding the pending cable franchise agreement were held at Monday night’s City Council meeting.