Cities affected include Fayetteville, Jacksonville, Greensboro, Raleigh and Charlotte.
Current incumbents could get months more time in office, possibly as much as a year.
The fall 2021 elections for mayor, city council and town board in at least 35 North Carolina cities and towns could be postponed until next year because the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 population data is being released well behind its usual schedule.
Those elections normally are held in September, October and November. It appears they will be postponed until March and May of 2022, and possibly later.
On top of delayed city elections, a state elections law expert said the March 2022 primaries for Congress, the General Assembly and county offices might also be delayed until later in 2022 because of the lateness of the Census data. Filing for the 2022 elections normally would start in early December.
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A member of the Fayetteville City Council who tested positive for COVID-19 attended a meeting on Feb. 5 with city and federal officials.
A statement released by the city Friday would not identify the member, saying it would violate a federal law dealing with the privacy of health information.
Mayor Mitch Colvin said at a news conference Feb. 5 that he, some council members and others met informally that day with Dion Lyons, a conciliation specialist with the federal Department of Justice.
The city’s statement said everyone who was in contact with the council member who tested positive for COVID-19 has been notified.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) As Fayetteville city leaders continue to discuss the fate of the historical Market House, a large group of the community has voiced their support to see the building remain in place.
Both options that Dawn Adkins-Hurley, a long-time Fayetteville resident, and other community members see as a threat to the National Historic Landmark. That was the first public library, that was the first health department, it was the first Fayetteville museum of arts, it was the first USO, Adkins-Hurley said.
Adkins-Hurley has been a strong advocate for protecting the Market House, since there were calls to tear it down during the George Floyd protests in the Summer of 2020. To take the history of a building that is almost 300 years old and to hold it accountable for a very small segment of time, 33 years out of 200.
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As the Fayetteville City Council considers what to do with the Market House, the options for how it might be used could be limited.
City Manager Doug Hewett talked to the council at a special meeting Jan. 27 about potential obstacles to repurposing the Market House. The council voted at the meeting not to demolish it and not to leave it as it is.
The council’s other two options are finding a new way to use the Market House or move it to another location. The council voted to ask Hewett and city staff members to research those two possibilities.