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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Friday Update

Board of Commissioners Friday Update

Friday, December 11, 2009

ITEM 1. PLANNING BOARD MEETING – MONDAY, DECEMBER 21^ST

The agenda for the December 21^st Planning Board meeting is at the end of this Friday Memo. The Preliminary Plat for the Village of Wendell is on the agenda.

ITEM 2. CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS TOUR AND CARRIAGE RIDES – SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19^TH

The Wendell Historical Society’s 2^nd Annual Candlelight Christmas Tour will be held on Saturday, December 19^th from 3:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and are available at several locations around town.

Horse-drawn carriage rides will also be available. Rides will be held 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Adult tickets will be sold the day of tour for $5, and tickets for children 10 years and under will be $2. The carriage rides are non-stop and will start and end at the Historic Post Office.

ITEM 3. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING POLICY

The County Commissioners passed an affordable housing policy this week that states Wake County will award funding commitments “only to affordable housing developments within municipalities that contain less than the current County average (3.9%) of subsidized housing. The County will consider funding housing developments if municipalities exempt themselves from this policy via written notice that the development is desired in the city or town”.

ITEM 4. LATEST ZWX EXPRESS BUS SERVICE RIDERSHIP NUMBERS

The Latest ZWX Express Bus Service ridership numbers are below.

Mon 11-30	60
Tue 12-1	55
Wed 12-2	52
Thu 12-3	57
Fri 12-4	57
Mon 12-7	47
Tue 12-8	44
Wed 12-9	40
Thu 12-10	50

To date, the average is about 55 passengers per day. The fare free period ended on November 30^th. The ridership is down a bit starting this week, but ridership decreases across the entire Triangle Transit system this time of year, so it’s not clear at this point what effect (if any) applying the fare has caused.

ITEM 5. CODE OF ETHICS REQUIREMENT – FROM 2009 LEGISLATIVE SESSION

As you may recall, the NC General Assembly passed a law in the 2009 session (SESSION LAW 2009-403, HOUSE BILL 1452 or G.S. 160A-83 and G.S. 160A-84) that requires governing boards of cities, counties, local boards of education, unified governments, sanitary districts, and consolidated city-counties to adopt a resolution or policy containing a code of ethics. It is believed that the town’s Code of Ethics (adopted Julty13, 2008) complies with this requirement.

The law also requires:

Each board member to receive two (2) clock hours of ethics training by January 1, 2011.
Subsequent training will be required of elected officials after each election.

The new Commissioners have received / will receive ethics training as part of the Essentials of Municipal Government workshop they have taken / will take. Additional ethics workshops will be offered across the state beginning in March 2010. (A schedule will be published in December 2009 in the NCLM’s Southern City publication and on the NCLM and School of Government websites.) A webinar will be developed for those unable to attend other training opportunities.

ITEM 6. OTHER

The Chamber of Commerce and Woman’s Club will hold their second annual art exhibit Friday, January 22^nd through Sunday, January 24^th. The opening reception will be at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, January 22^nd at the Wendell Woman’s Club. This year’s theme is “Animals in Art”, and the theme is designed to raise awareness of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) of Wake County.

ITEM 7. UPCOMING EVENTS:

DATE TIME EVENT LOCATION

12/14 7:00 p.m. Board of Commissioners Meeting @ Town Hall

12/19 3:00-8:00 p.m. Wendell Historical Society Home Tour

12/21 7:00 p.m. Planning Board Meeting @ Town Hall

12/24 - 12/25 – Town offices closed for Christmas holiday

12/28 7:00 p.m. Board of Commissioners Meeting @ Town Hall

01/11 7:00 p.m. Board of Commissioners Meeting @ Town Hall

01/18 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – Town offices closed

01/22 (Fri.) 2nd Annual Wendell Fine Arts Exhibit Woman’s Club
(sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and the Woman’s Club)

01/25 7:00 p.m. Board of Commissioners Meeting @ Town Hall

AGENDA

The Regular Meeting of the Wendell Planning Board

Monday, December 21, 2009 Wendell Courtroom

7:00 p.m. Wendell, North Carolina

1. Meeting Called to Order

A quorum of seven members of the Planning Board is required before taking official action

2. Welcome and Recognition of Guests

3. Chairman and Board Members’ Comments

4. Adjustment and Approval of the Agenda

5. Public Comments:

Individuals interested in speaking during the public comments time will need to sign up prior to the beginning of the meeting. The signup period will begin thirty (30) minutes prior to the beginning of the meeting and conclude at the beginning of the meeting.
Each individual is limited to a time of three (3) minutes in which to express his or her concerns.
Individuals making public comments are expected to be courteous to the Planning Board.

6. Approval of Minutes:

October 19, 2009 minutes

7. Action Taken at Previous Town Board Meetings

A. Unified Development Ordinance

8. Discussion, Consideration, and Action on the Following Items:

A. Village of Wendell Preliminary Plat

9. Adjourn to Next Regularly Scheduled Meeting

posted by Administrator # 7:31 AM

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