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In North Carolina, city and town municipalities are the ultimate overlay governments. In this category, we explore how they work.

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The City of Washington Agenda for their meeting of the whole on Monday Evening, May 14, 2012.
The City of Washington Agenda for their meeting of the whole on Monday Evening, April 23, 2012.
The City of Washington Agenda for their meeting on Monday Evening, April 9, 2012.
The Washington City Council, in its regular monthly meeting Monday (3-12-12) approved a lease agreement with the owners of the Schooner Jeanie B to dock on the city's waterfront and operate a charter business from Washington.
The Chocowinity Town Board, meeting in its regularly monthly meeting Tuesday night (3-7-12) voted to borrow $2,896,000 to upgrade the sewer line running from the existing Bragaw Lane pump station to Cypress Landing.
City Manager Josh Kay announced the appointment of Stacy Drakeford as the Interim Police and Fire Services Director for the City of Washington.
At Monday's (2-27-12) Washington City Council meeting City Manager Josh Kay made a presentation to the council and public for a reorganization of Washington city government.
The Washington City Council, meeting February 27, 2012 in the Committee of the Whole, among other things, heard the City Manager give a mid-year financial report.
The "Godfather of the Chocowinity Recreation Program," Jeff Haddock tendered notice of his resignation as Director of Recreation at the regular monthly meeting of the Chocowinity Town Board.
Publisher's note: Washington City Manager, Josh Kay, has submitted this press release below, which states that Washington Police Chief Mick Reed has resigned. No reason was given for his departure.
The Washington City Council, meeting in its regular monthly meeting Monday night (1-9-12) declined the offer of Landex to participate in the re-development of the Hotel Louise and the Belk Building in downtown Washington.
The Washington City Council held a marathon session Monday night (12-12-11), devoted mostly to strategic planning.
The idea is to convert two unused buildings on Main Street into apartments for low income senior citizens. We think that is a great idea. We have no problem with the idea of development which brings more residents to the downtown area.
At the November Washington City Council meeting the council heard a long presentation by representatives of a company called "Landex" which proposes to renovate the old Hotel Louise and the adjacent old Belk building into apartments for low-income seniors.
Is Washington big enough to be Little? That was the issue put to the Washington City Council by its "branding" experts at the November council meeting.
This is a continuation of our series on Monday's (11-14-11) Washington City Council meeting.
The Washington City Council met Monday (11-14-11) in its regular monthly meeting and as usual, heard some good news and some bad news.
It was all over before 8:00 pm at the Beaufort County Board of Election. With an anemically low turnout, and the new and improved equipment for processing votes, the Beaufort County Board of Elections finished up in time where one could still make their supper date, get home and watch prime time.
Across Beaufort County municipal elections are being held at the various polling places in the towns and city of this county.
At a recent candidates forum for the Washington City Council the question was raised about how to reduce our electrical bills. Several of the candidates posited "load management" as an effective way of doing that.
As scheduled, the Washington City Council, and councilman Moultrie, discussed the Police Chief's recommendation that people with valid concealed handgun permits be prohibited from having those weapons in a list of "recreational facilities" within the city.
Here is another one of those examples of the obsession of the City of Washington to control every aspect of whatever it is they think they can control. The proposal by the Police Chief is absolutely inconsistent with the intent of the General Assembly in enacting H 650.
As we have reported here on several occasions in the last several months, your electrical bill is headed up, up and up. Now we learn that the proposed merger of Progress Energy and Duke Energy will make them go up even more.
The public got an opportunity to meet and hear candidates for the city council in Washington at a Candidates' Forum last night (9-15-11).
What to do about the feral cats was the big issue, if you count the amount of time spent on it, while the bad drainage issue came up again.
On Monday night Mercer indicated that his read of the financial statements was that there could possibly be as much as a million in revenue shortfall.
At its regular monthly meeting this week the Chocowinity Town Board adopted a new ordinance requiring property owners within the town limits to post street number signs as prescribed by the ordinance.
Belhaven has a contest in their mayoral race as Ronald Winfield has thrown his proverbial "hat-in-the-ring."
We all would like to think that the people we hire to run public service departments would spend the taxpayer's money just like they would spend their own.
Municipal elections, except for Belhaven, have come to a close with the most distinguishable fact being the remarkable lack of candidate participation, represented by the incredible point that Aurora and Washington Park do not even have enough candidates to fill their candidate rosters.
Municipal Elections' filing period in Beaufort County has been extended to July 20, 2011 due to lack of participation by candidates seeking municipal office.
Municipal Elections are schedule for the first Tuesday in November in this off-election year, and the last day for the candidates to file to run for office is Friday, July 15, 2011 at high noon.
Municipal Elections will take place in North Carolina this autumn, and candidates who wish to change the path of their communities will run, but first they must file.
Washington needs a new police station. The current one is woefully inadequate. Everyone agrees with that.
The Washington City Council adopted the FY 2012 budget on a split 3-2 vote Monday night (6-13-11).
Josh Kay will be the new Washington City Manager. The Washington Council announced that last night (5-2-11) and the Clinton, South Carolina council met and accepted Mr. Kay's resignation.
The Washington City Council, meeting in the Committee of the Whole on Monday, (3-28-11) heard a report on its electrical utility system done by Hometown Connections.
The council was told that it was urgent that they act because of an impending "moratorium" imposed by the state on pile-driving in the river at this time of year.
The Marine Market will feature a maritime-themed Flea Market; a Boat Corral, with used boats for sale; marine-related seminars; seafood vendors; and lively entertainment.
No more excuses: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Within the next week, all City of Washington residential solid-waste customers should be outfitted with a blue, 95-gallon roll-out recycling cart.
The City of Washington Administrative Offices will delay opening until 10 a.m. on Tuesday, due to expected poor driving conditions in the early morning.
The Washington City Council, meeting in its regular monthly meeting December 13 heard a report from its external auditing firm.
Someone once said: "the most despotic government every invented is the local planning board...and a city council is nothing but a planning board on steroids."
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