Posted on 24 March 2010. Tags: Charlotte Mecklenburg School board, CMS, layoffs, observer
Job ratings are top criteria; 224 assistant principals face pay cut
By ANN DOSS HELMS
The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board voted 6-3 Tuesday to lay off approximately 600 teachers and cut pay for all 224 assistant principals in 2010-11, as the district braces for a second bleak budget year.
The board voted 6-3 against a motion to cut everyone’s pay up to 10 percent to avert layoffs. But members said they’ll keep looking for alternatives to layoffs, possibly including pay cuts. Read the full story
Posted in Beyond Davidson, Schools, The Economy
Posted on 17 March 2010. Tags: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, economy, Mecklenburg County, observer
By STEVE LYTTLE
The Charlotte Observer
Mecklenburg County’s library board will vote Thursday on a proposal which would close half the county’s branches and lay off 140 employees within a matter of weeks.
The proposal, announced to employees Wednesday morning, is the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library’s way of coping with a 6.3 percent funding reduction in the current fiscal year. Read the full story
Posted in Beyond Davidson, The Economy
Posted on 05 March 2010. Tags: community service, Davidson College, Jack Burney Award, observer, West Side
70-year resident says volunteering keeps her healthy
Bernice Houston. (Jennifer Szakaly photo)
JENNIFER SZAKALY
The Charlotte Observer
For a region that is being defined by all of the people moving here from other parts of the country, there’s still a large contingent of residents who have lived in the Lake Norman region for most if not all their lives.
Bernice Houston is private about her age and only offers this clue: She’s originally from Mooresville, but has lived in Davidson for 70 years. During that time, she has seen the farmland disappear through decades of development. In fact, her home off Sloan Street on Davidson’s West Side stands on what was once a cow pasture.
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Posted in barbee farms, community service, Davidson College, Nonprofit news
Posted on 26 February 2010. Tags: economy, Mecklenburg County Commission, observer, taxes
At retreat, board eyes delaying new construction
By APRIL BETHEA
Charlotte Observer
A majority of Mecklenburg County commissioners said Thursday they would support not raising property taxes and delaying most, if not all, new construction projects for at least a year as the county confronts a looming budget shortfall of up to $63 million.
Holding the tax rate steady would be welcome news to county residents, and could eliminate a dicey campaign issue as the board goes up for election this year. Read the full story
Posted in adoption support, Beyond Davidson, The Economy
