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Residents whose homes were destroyed in the April 16 tornado could have access to city funding for repairs. The City Council’s Budget and Economic Development Committee unanimously approved a measure Monday to provide $400,000 for low and moderate-income residents who have exhausted all other avenues of financial assistance.
From jazz to rock, check out what’s playing in Raleigh this week.
Section 9.5.4 discusses the creation of trust funds. Instead of going into the general fund, facility fees are kept separate, much like the parking fund fees. According to the code, a trust fund must be set up all benefits areas that are labeled Thoroughfare and Collector Street Benefit areas and Open Space Benefit areas.
Wake Schools Superintendent Tony Tata released nine student assignment plan options Monday. Tata’s six-member task force has designated two of the plans as frontrunners. One, dubbed the Blue Plan, is a community-based choice plan (or controlled-choice plan). The Green Plan is much closer to the existing student assignment plan.
Everyone loves clean water and a place for dirty water to go. Article 9.3 lays down the ground rules for how a water supply should be addressed in a new development. The rules are different depending on where the construction is taking place. The same can be said for sewage disposal.
Last week, the Wake County Board of Education learned that the district’s most effective teachers are not teaching its lowest-performing students. In this two-part series, the Record examines the teacher evaluation system in Wake County. Today, in Part One, we answer the question, what is EVAAS?
During the past couple decades, a few blocks of East Hargett Street in downtown have gone from a black business district to a collection of coffee shops, bars and restaurants catering to Raleigh’s middle class. A few black-owned barbershops and nightclubs still remain. The face of these couple blocks, from Fayetteville Street to Moore Square, has changed. This collection of photographs attempts to explore that change and what it means to the city.
The UDO includes a lot of new, fun stuff, but a large part of the project was to reorganize the current code into something more cohesive. In some cases, the code hasn’t changed, but it has been reformatted and reorganized so it is more easy to use.
The Wake County school board voted this week to cut 174 clerical jobs. At its Tuesday meeting the board voted 5-2 to approve a reduction in force for 155 school-based clerical and 19 central services secretarial positions.
