April 4, 2017 Christy Kluesner and her husband Dean think a carbon tax will help preserve the Earth for generations to come. They portray themselves, and the Citizens' Climate Lobby they work through, as playing the long game to achieve a legislative solution that encourages movement away from all ... Continue Reading →
County manager update
March 21, 2017 Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio offered an update this morning on a variety of county issues. She ended with the Health Department imbroglio, mentioning that all women who had been tested for cervical cancer but not notified of test results have now been found. Her message to ... Continue Reading →
Black History Month: Elisa Chinn-Gary’s path to service
Feb. 21, 2017 Elisa Chinn-Gary returned to the Forum today to tell her life story and the tasks she has embraced as Clerk of Superior Court in Mecklenburg County. Among them: winning over holdovers members of the 200-person staff who were loyal to her predecessor; managing a paper flow that ... Continue Reading →
Open Forum focuses on officer-involved shooting, funding priorities
Jan. 31, 2017 It began as an Open Forum. But Sarah Stevenson had asked Willie Ratchford to bring a police official to discuss a recent officer-involved fatal shooting on Albemarle Road. So Ratchford addressed some of the issues that have already emerged, including the position taken by some young ... Continue Reading →
Updates from 4 elected city, county, N.C. House & N.C. Senate officials
Dec. 6, 2016 After a presentation by representatives of two Charlotte charter high schools operated by the same Florida-based company, facilitator Karen Gipson called elected officials in the room to the front for a report. There was, of course, news. Trevor Fuller had lost his chairmanship of ... Continue Reading →
Revising the manual for community crisis response
Oct. 18, 2016 Members of the Community Relations Committee's Council of Elders were on hand this morning to describe their work. The group made available to Forum participants a set of papers about the Council of Elders. That material is here in a PDF. In the video below, Maria Macon's ... Continue Reading →
League of Women Voters president discusses group’s work
Aug. 9, 2016 Delores Johnson Hurt addressed the Forum this morning about the work and scheduled activities about the League of Women Voters. The group’s website is here. Following that presentation and a number of questions, the Forum discussed issues relating to Black Lives Matter. A number of ... Continue Reading →
Police chief: We’re working to educate all on interactions with officers
Aug. 2, 2016 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney brought officer J.D. Williams along with him this morning, to introduce Forum participants to a CMPD officer who could help them understand the work that all members of the police force do. Questions ranged widely. But much of the ... Continue Reading →
Tree canopy, Americans with Disabilities Act
July 26, 2016 Charlotte Tree Canopy Manager Erin Oliverio first this morning, outlining a plan under way to develop a master plan for trees in Charlotte. City Council has set a goal of having 50% of the city under the tree canopy by 2050. Oliverio described the goal as aggressive, given the amount ... Continue Reading →
Diorio has department heads explain breadth of county’s work
May 10, 2016 County Manager Dena Diorio used today's Forum visit to showcase the work of a number of county departments, and to introduce to a wider audience the people tasked with leading those efforts. In the order in which they spoke, the speakers were Dr. Marcus Plescia, County Health ... Continue Reading →
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