Fayetteville City Council decided at its work session Monday to look into childcare options for city employees.
The council voted 7-1 toresearch how best the city could provide assistance on childcare for its employees. Councilwoman Courtney Banks-McLaughlin brought up the issue.
Currently, the city doesn t provide childcare, nor has it done a study to assess the need among essential employees, spokeswoman Nacarla Webb said in an email Tuesday.
Councilwoman Yvonne Kinston told the council that the city needed to look into the daycare facilities as they open back up with limited capacity. She said the city should see if city employees are having issues getting their children into care, as well as look into their other needs. She also said city officials need to look into how many single parents work for the city as essential employees and determine their needs for services.
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‘The list is too long’: DeKalb activists hold vigil for victims of police brutality
DeKALB – George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Adam Toledo, Ma’Khia Bryant, were only a few of the many lives remembered at Friday’s vigil to remember those who’ve lost their lives to police brutality.
“The list is too long,” said Jocelyn Santana, local Black Lives Matter leader and director of social justice education at NIU. “Too long.”
Local Black Lives Matter activists and DeKalb residents met at Memorial Park, 101 Lincoln Highway, for a candlelight vigil to mourn the loss of Black and Brown lives “due to systemic and institutional violence.”
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) A trailblazer and an inspiration. Those words describe former Fayetteville Mayor Beth Finch and now the city is renaming a downtown park in her honor. She let me be where I am today, Mayor Pro Tem Kathy Jensen said. She opened up doors for me. She opened up doors for all women in Fayetteville.
For Jensen, Monday night s decision to rename Cross Creek Park in honor of the city s first and only female mayor brings back many memories and reminds her of how far she and other women in Fayetteville have come.
Finch, who served as mayor from 1975 to 1981, was also the first female city council member as well the first female mayor pro tem.
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BREWSTER Negotiations between Brewster, represented by Town Administrator Peter Lombardi, and the 400-member Save Millstone Road group, represented by former selectman Bill Henchy, have reignited following a near collapse.
The town and group seemed tantalizingly close to an agreement at Monday’s Select Board meeting, with only a few issues dividing them regarding the revamp of Millstone Road. We need to resolve the question of the geometry of the road and don t go into a black box (for the design). There needs to be involvement along the way, Henchy said.
A $10 million road bond was passed in 2015, and attention turned to the $5.7 million Millstone project in 2018. The town held three outreach meetings, one each in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Nonetheless, opposition grew even as the project was scaled down.