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Residents urge courthouse cleanup, homelessness response and school funding during Newton City public comments
Summary
At the Sept. 9 meeting residents urged cleanup of the old courthouse, collaboration with the county on school mergers, called attention to school-lunch debt, announced a prayer walk, and urged action on vagrancy and homelessness.
During the public comment portion of the Sept. 9 Newton City Council meeting residents raised several local concerns.
Michael McRee urged the city to clean the old courthouse and suggested the city coordinate with Catawba County on possible school consolidation to avoid duplicated costs. Max Sin, identified as being from Winston-Salem, said he had paid more than $10,000 to help pay off school lunch debt and argued that local zoning authority should remain with municipalities. MacGregor Van Beurden invited residents to a prayer walk in downtown Newton on Sunday, Sept. 14. Patrick Sterchi referenced a recent stabbing on the Charlotte light rail and urged continued efforts to address vagrancy and homelessness in Newton.
Council received the comments; the meeting record does not show formal council action on these public comments during the session.
