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Council Colleagues, 

Thank you all for your hard work this week.  Below are a few updates. 

Council Retreat 

The Retreat Committee has been working closely with facilitator, Maggie Chotas.  Agendas and materials will be out to you this week.  The schedule is as follows: 

• Fri, February 5: 4pm-7pm 
• Sat, February 6: 9am-12pm 
• Mon, February 8: 6pm-8pm 

 

Please note the following schedule changes:   

• The January 20^th Closed Session is being rescheduled to Wednesday, February 10^th.  
• The CCES meeting has been rescheduled to Friday, February 12^th at 8 a.m. 

 

Weekly Updates: 

CHCCS Check-In  

On Wednesday, I had the opportunity to check-in with CHCCS School Board leadership, Chair Jillian La Serna and Vice Chair Deon Teme.   Since this was our first check-in, I took the opportunity to update them on several issues our organizations have been working on such as shared space for using school facilities to increase summer camps and, also, our interest in increased partnership on COVID support groups (YMCA Scholastic Support Centers and Neighborhood Support Circles).   

 

Greene Tract MMC Meeting 

Metro Mayors Legislative Call 

Duke Energy IRP Feedback  

Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines and I spoke with the (virtually) assembled mayors to share the letter our towns have signed and to encourage others to give feedback to Duke Energy as well. 

Metro Mayors Transportation Letter 

I will be adding my signature to a joint letter requesting that Governor Cooper restore Transit SMAP funding to the state’s annual budget.  The letter will also go to the Chairs of the Transportation Appropriations committees. 

COVID Assistance 

A separate COVID funding bill is likely to emerge from the NCGA in the coming weeks regarding most recent federal funding.  All activity at the state level is going to be contingent upon the action at the federal level. 

Education is one of the biggest issues related to COVID with two area of focus: 

1. Assessing learning loss 
2. Figuring out how to get students back into the classroom 
   
    

NCGA Organization

A few items of note:

Looking Ahead: 

Aura Traffic Information Session 

February 10^th, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. 

 

People’s Academy applications are being accepted through February 19^th.  Information and applications are posted in English, Spanish and Chinese.  Please help share this with the public. 

 

Hope you all have a nice weekend. 

Pam 

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