Wendell resident tells board she filed lawsuit alleging commissioners lack required surety bonds

At the start of the Wendell Town Board meeting’s public-comment period, resident Regina Harmon told the board she had filed a lawsuit and served an affidavit alleging the town’s commissioners were not bonded with individual surety bonds required by North Carolina law.

“My name is Regina Harmon… I went to the town manager and the police chief over a number of conflict of interests, and they did nothing,” Harmon said during public comment. She told the board she found that “none of you on the board are bonded with individual surety bonds that are required by a number of general statutes of North Carolina in order to vote on or pass anything sitting up there as commissioners.”

Harmon said she filed suit roughly two weeks earlier and asked the board “to not move forward with anything more votes whatsoever because of the unlawful actions you have taken for a number of years.” She offered to hand affidavits to the board members; the clerk accepted the documents.

The board did not announce any immediate procedural change in response and proceeded to the consent agenda and subsequent items. No town official made a substantive public response on the record during the meeting excerpt to Harmon’s legal allegations.

Speakers quoted in this article are listed in the meeting record. The transcript identifies the allegation and the transfer of an affidavit to the clerk but does not specify the statutes Harmon cited.