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Council member Mike Rainey brought several concerns to the Henderson City Council at its meeting Monday night.

On a motion introduced by Ranger Wilkerson that was not on the published agenda, the City Council voted Monday night to freeze all unfilled positions in the Henderson government with no exceptions. Future vacancies will automatically become frozen.

City Engineer Frank Frazier reported to the Henderson City Council on Monday night that the Embassy Streetscape Project will be $60,000 over budget if brick work is completed as planned.

To celebrate Teen Read Week, the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library broke new ground by providing a performance program specifically for a teen audience Tuesday evening.

During last week’s Henderson City Council meeting, the Rev. Todd Hester of Cotton Memorial Presbyterian Church asked the council for an endorsement of efforts to create a Boys & Girls Club in Henderson.

The Collective connects with the audience at a performance. Three of the members will be at the Perry Library at 6 p.m. today. Three members of the Greensboro-based performance art group The Collective will put on a show at the H. Leslie Perry Memorial Library today from 6 to 7:15 p.m. as part of the library’s second annual observance of Teen Read Week.

The Planning and Community Development Department submitted the following report to the City Council for its meeting Monday.

On Monday night the Henderson City Council met for the last time before Tuesday’s municipal election. Some items on the agenda were:

It wasn’t a huge turnout — fewer than 1,900 votes in any individual race — but the outcome is clear: Henderson has voted for change. According to final tallies posted at WRAL.com, Elissa Yount triumphed in the marquee matchup of incumbents, topping the longest-serving City Council member, John Wester, in the Ward 3 at-large race, 1,061 to 816. Two other incumbents lost, both in Ward 2: Bobby Gupton knocked off Harriette Butler for the ward seat, 568 to 396, and …

The Vance County Board of Education met at the Administrative Services Center on Graham Avenue on Monday.

On Sept. 21, HomeinHenderson e-mailed 17 questions to each of the candidates on the ballot for the Henderson City Council in the six contested races. We did not contact council members Lonnie Davis and Ranger Wilkerson, who are running unopposed in Ward 4, nor do we submit the questions to Deryl Von Williams, on the perhaps dubious principle that we only wanted to deal with candidates who took advantage of the five-week filing period to enter the municipal elections.

During the Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting Monday evening, the board took some other actions:

Brian Short, the director of emergency operations for Vance County, reported to the Board of Commissioners on Monday about his participation in relief efforts in New Orleans.

A public hearing on amending the county litter control ordinance was held during Monday evening’s Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting.

Monday evening’s Vance County Board of Commissioners meeting began with a public hearing regarding the renewal of Time Warner’s cable franchise agreement with the county.