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Greenville council adopts FY2025–26 budget, approves cemetery relocation and confirms board appointments
Summary
At its June 12 meeting, the Greenville City Council adopted its combined FY2025–26 budget, approved a developer request to relocate 77 graves from Randolph Cemetery to Queen Anne Cemetery in Fountain, and confirmed multiple board and commission appointments. All recorded votes on those items were unanimous.
Greenville City Council on June 12 adopted the city's combined proposed FY2025'1 budget, approved a resolution to relocate abandoned graves from Randolph Cemetery to Queen Anne Cemetery in Fountain, and confirmed multiple appointments to city boards and commissions, with each recorded vote passing unanimously.
The council approved a combined proposed budget the city presented for FY2025'1. City staff said the combined proposal includes the city operating funds, the Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC), the Convention and Visitor Authority and Shepherd Memorial Library; the total presented at the meeting was roughly $504.5 million. The city operating fund portion was listed as $118.8 million. A motion to adopt the budget passed on a recorded voice vote of 6-0.
The council also approved a resolution requested by developer Renaissance Lifestyle to relocate abandoned graves from Randolph Cemetery (a roughly 0.7-acre fenced parcel identified as Parcel 91820) to Queen Anne Cemetery in Fountain. City staff cited North Carolina statute G.S. 65-106 during the presentation; the developer and Justin Smith Funeral Service told council that the town of Fountain had agreed to accept the proposed relocation of 77 graves. Council voted 6-0 to authorize the relocation.
Council confirmed a series of appointments and reappointments by unanimous votes. Named actions recorded in the meeting minutes included: reappointment of Jeremy Jordan to the Board of Adjustment; reappointment of David Southworth; appointment of David Newman; appointment of Craig Becker to the Environmental Advisory Commission; appointment of Simon Swain and Dr. Robert Shaw to positions with the Greenville Utilities Commission; and reappointments of Brett Morgan and Diane Taylor to the Pitt Greenville Convention and Visitors Authority. Each recorded appointment motion carried 6-0.
Other procedural votes included a motion to cancel the June 23 city council meeting (passed 6-0) and the addition to the agenda, and later entry, into a closed session under N.C. Gen. Stat. A7 143-318.11(a)(5) for the stated purpose of establishing or instructing staff on negotiating positions; those motions passed (the early agenda addition was recorded as 5-0 and the subsequent closed-session motion as 6-0).
Council members who participated in the votes are Mayor PJ Conley, Mayor Pro Tem Monica Daniels and Council Members Forman, Blackburn, Scully, Robinson and Willis. The meeting record shows no recorded dissent on the items listed above.
The budget adoption and the cemetery relocation carry implementation steps described during presentations: the budget will be incorporated into the city's fiscal plan for 2025'6; the cemetery relocation will follow the statutory process in G.S. 65-106, including notice and oversight by the county health director or designee, and a developer representative said site work and rezoning for the adjacent development have already begun.
Council did not take final action at the meeting on an earlier public hearing for an annexation (Savannah Place, Section 5); that item was presented and the public hearing opened but no final vote appears in the recorded portion of the transcript.
Votes at the June 12 meeting were largely procedural and unanimous, and several items approved require subsequent administrative steps (budget implementation, statutory disinterment procedures).
