On June 18 we passed the FY 2012-2013 budget. I want to touch on the highlights of the budget and make a few comments in areas that might need some clarification. To see the approved budget and a more complete summary please visit the county website. W…
If you want to catch up on happenings at a meeting of the Chatham County Board of Commissioners, the county is offering a way to view meeting videos a few days after the meetings online. At this time, the May 16 meeting and the two public hearings on t…
Chatham County Commissioners Brian Bock, Walter Petty and Pam Stewart are holding town hall meetings around the county every quarter. To this point there have been five such meetings. These commissioners feel that the interaction with Chatham citizens …
Since 2006 our commissioner districts have been changed twice. In 2006 the Board of Commissioners (BOC) lead by Commissioner Morgan gathered a bi-partisan task force to redraw the districts. A solution was agreed on by the task force and subsequently a…
Around this time last year Pam Stewart, Walter Petty, and I made a commitment to bring much needed change to Chatham County. We had fantastic support from folks all across the county helping us get here so that we could make these changes, and I’d like…
Like most decisions that the board of commissioners has to make, this one was not as straight forward as it might first appear. The decision to allow the Western Wake Partnerships to route the pipeline that will carry clean water from the New Hill trea…