The Town Council season finale airs tonight, beginning at 7. Among the topics up for discussion is whether and how much to charge for library cards. Last month, council preliminarily rejected Orange County’s contribution to the library and, instead, left open the option of charging out-of-town users for library cards. At present, about 1,400 out-of-county […]
Season finale
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 27, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/27/season-finale/
Cost of living
A light bulb went on when I read Ed Harrison’s comment implying that Carol Ann Zinn was wrong in her assessment that $400,000 was moderate-priced housing in Chapel Hill. Sally Greene had asked Zinn at Monday night’s public hearing what her moderately priced condos would cost. Zinn did not put a dollar figure to it […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 22, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/22/cost-of-living/
Aydan Court: Who holds the cards?
Tonight’s Town Council meeting will be the closest event Chapel Hill has to the World Series of Poker. The Aydan Court special use permit application returns for another round; expect players to see, raise, call and maybe even bluff. Zinn Design Build owns a 6-acre parcel off N.C. 54 in Durham County, just behind UNC’s […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 20, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/20/aydan-court-who-holds-the-cards/
Last call at 523
If you want to have your wedding at the former Chapel Hill Museum building, you’ve got until June 30. Come July 1, the town will close the above-ground portion of 523 E. Franklin St. An engineering report convinced town manager Roger Stancil to close the street-level section of the building rather than find money for […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 16, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/16/last-call-at-523/
Card charge
The library figured prominently in the budget discussion at Monday night’s Town Council meeting. You may recall that Sally Greene was away on a family emergency the night council rejected the county’s contribution and approved charging for cards. She clearly disagreed with the council’s move, and she voted for the budget Monday night only on […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 15, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/15/card-charge/
Moving money
Town manager Roger Stancil has the $62,000 tipping fees expenditure covered. It’s just a matter of moving some numbers around, he said. Turns out the town had planned to pay the county $90,000 this year as part of its share for purchasing greenway land. The town will pay the unexpected tipping fee expenditure from the […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 14, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/14/moving-money/
Scrap and save
Most of the time, municipal processes work just fine. But once in a while, something comes up that gives “government workers” a bad name. The street resurfacing recommendation that is part of tonight’s consent agenda is one of them. Because of the increase in tipping fees at the landfill that the county did not determine […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 13, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/13/scrap-and-save/
Lawsuit filed
Commercial and residential property owners filed suit against the Town of Chapel Hill today to obtain information that may show whether some Town Council members should be disqualified to vote on the IFC shelter special use permit application. Dogwood Asset Management, the owners of Homestead Station, the shopping center on the corner of Homestead Road […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 8, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/08/lawsuit-filed/
Now how much?
You know that music in some movies that, no matter how pleasant the scene, you get an anxious feeling the pit of your stomach? Like in Jaws, vacationers may be frolicking in the gentle waves on a sunny day, but when you hear that music, you know: No good can come of this. I heard […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 6, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/06/now-how-much/
Wacko taxes
Penurious by necessity, I have never had a latte. Yet soon I may be dunned the equivalent of two lattes a week. First the library expansion and the proposed quarter-cent county tax hike on the November ballot to go toward education and business development, and now an additional half-cent tax increase waiting in the wings […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on June 1, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/06/01/wacko-taxes/