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The City of Greensboro and the College Hill
Neighborhood Association will host their second
Neighborhood Summit to get public input on the
future growth of the College Hill community. The
summit will be held Thursday, April 16, from
6:30-8:30 pm at Church of the Covenant, 501 S.
Mendenhall St. For more information visit the College Hill Neighborhood Web
site or call Sue Schwartz, the City's
Neighborhood Planning Manager, at
373-2149. The Greensboro
Philharmonia, under the direction of Robert
Gutter, and guest trumpet soloist Ed Bach, will
host an exciting evening of music when it presents
Berlioz, Hummel and Schumann. The concert will be
held Friday, April 17, at 7:30 pm at Guilford
College's Dana Auditorium, 5800 W. Friendly Ave.
The event is free and open to the public. For more
information, visit the Greensboro Philharmonia Web
site or contact Jennifer Hance at
373-2549. The Commission on the
Status of Women will hold a meeting on Tuesday,
April 21, at 1 pm in the Council Chambers of the
Melvin Municipal Office Building, 300 W.
Washington St. The meeting is open to the public.
For more information, visit the City's Human Relations Department
Web site or call Yamile Walker at
373-2328.
Droughts not only affect people, they also
affect wildlife. Learn how animals and plants cope
with dry spells by attending Parks and
Recreation's "Living the Wild Life: Pond Studies
and Wetland Ecology" class Thursday, April 23, at
6 pm at Lake Higgins Watershed Park, 4235 Hamburg
Rd. The event is free and open to the public. For
more information, call
373-3818. |
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| City
Council Action Wrap-Up |
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Council seeks grant to get 30 new police
officers..
At its
meeting on Tuesday, April 7, City Council approved
a federal stimulus grant application that would
add up to 30 new police officers to the Greensboro
Police Department (GPD). City staff is seeking the
grant from COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP),
which offers law enforcement agencies funds to
create and preserve jobs and to increase their
community policing capacity and crime prevention
efforts.
If the City receives the
grant, CHRP would pay for entry-level salaries and
benefits for the officers' first three years of
service. The City expects to hear a decision on
whether it will receive the grant by fall of this
year.
Council
also:
- Voted 5-4 to annex 151 acres in McLeansville
into Greensboro city limits. Because the
annexation request didn't receive six
affirmative votes, Council will revote on the
issue at its April 21 meeting.
- Noted that a Council Briefing will be held
Tuesday, April 14, at 3 pm in the Plaza Level
Conference Room of the Melvin Municipal Office
Building, 300 W. Washington St. The meeting is
open to the public.
To view the entire meeting or past meetings,
visit City Council's video archive
page. |
| Let Council
Know What Matters to You with Online Budget
Survey |
Survey makes it easy for residents
to voice their
opinions.
The City is
making it easy for you to weigh in on its annual
budget process with a new online survey. If you
haven't attended one of City Council's community
conversations on the budget, or even if you have
and have additional input, take the online budget survey
and voice your opinions.
Also, you have
one more chance to attend a community meeting on
the budget. Council member Mike Barber will host
the final meeting on Thursday, April 23, at 6 pm
at Lindley Recreation Center, 2907 Springwood Dr.
Anyone having special needs should call
373-2723 at least five days prior to the meeting.
Stay informed about the budget process by visiting
City's budget process page and
read what other residents had to
say. |
| City Submits
Updated Economic Stimulus Priority List to State
Senate |
Revised list includes priority projects to
keep Greensboro moving.
The City of Greensboro has provided a
retooled economic stimulus priority list to the
newly formed Select North Carolina Senate
Committee for Economic Recovery. Greensboro
Senator Don Vaughan is a member of that committee.
The retooled list includes 62 projects
Greensboro City Council approved as priority
projects for economic stimulus funding, as well as
additional projects identified by City staff. As
new information has become available about
economic stimulus funding, City department heads
have identified additional projects that may
qualify for funding as part of the stimulus
package.
Governor Bev Perdue's budget
recommendations on March 17 reportedly used some
of the economic stimulus funding as part of her
balanced budget proposal. The Senate committee and
a House committee will take up the task of
evaluating the Governor's recommendation for
stimulus funding. That review may reflect
different priorities than those of the Governor.
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| Recycle
Your Old Electronics |
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![Spring Cleanup 2009]()
Guilford County residents can drop off
appliances, household chemicals, batteries,
computers, cell phones and much more for free
during the annual Spring Cleanup. The event,
sponsored by the City of Greensboro, Guilford
County and the N.C. Department of Agriculture
(NCDA), will be held Friday, April 17, from 9 am
to 3 pm at the NCDA office, 3309 Burlington Rd. Learn more about the Spring
Cleanup. |
| Protest
Petition Restored |
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N.C. General
Assembly ratified
bill.
The
N.C. General Assembly ratified a bill in March
that removed Greensboro's exemption from protest
petition requirements.
Greensboro
City Council must now follow specific voting
procedures when addressing rezoning matters where
a valid protest petition has been submitted. For
example, any action taken in cases involving a
protest petition must be approved by City Council
by a super-majority vote. For Greensboro, that
means seven votes would be
required.
For more information about
the requirements and procedures for submitting
protest petitions, visit the City's Planning Department Web
site or call
373-2144. |
| City Water
Wins 'Safe Drinking' Award |
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EPA recognizes City's commitment to safe
water act.
The City's Water Resources Department
recently received the 2008 U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency Safe Drinking Water Act
Excellence Award for its region, which includes
eight southeastern states. The award recognizes a
commitment to compliance with the safe water act
through outstanding operations and maintenance.
Criteria for the award include compliance with
federal and state regulations, passing sanitary
survey results, overall administrative management,
operations and maintenance and quality customer
service. "The award is an
outstanding recognition of the ongoing efforts
taken by the Water Resources Department to provide
excellent operations and maintenance of our public
water system for our customers," said Allan
Williams, director of Water
Resources. For more information about
Water Resources, visit its Web
site. | |
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