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Newton recognizes emergency personnel and lists downtown, ARP and parks updates
Summary
Council presented Kiwanis awards to a police officer and firefighter, and City Manager Todd Clark reviewed budget workshops, downtown streetscape estimates, American Rescue Plan updates, and multiple planning and parks items in his report.
Council Member Ed Sain presented Kiwanis awards to Devante Jones (Police Officer of the Year) and William Warren (Fire Fighter of the Year), and Mayor Eddie Haupt thanked them for their service.
City Manager Todd Clark reviewed administrative items in his report: scheduled budget workshops May 10–12, completion of probable cost estimates for downtown streetscape Phases 3 and 4, a legislative update on state consideration of American Rescue Plan fund distribution to nonentitlement cities, reference to Electricities Site Assist Program, the Downtown Mixed-Use Development Study by Real Property Research Group, planning and landscape architecture service proposals, pool/splash pad and mural projects, tennis court resurfacing, sidewalk and paving project completions, and the Highway 16 Waterline Project.
Mayor Pro Tem John Stiver later reported on Tree Board business and participation in ElectriCities. The council moved into a closed session under N.C. Gen. Stat. 143-318.11(a)(3); the minutes state no action was taken in closed session. The meeting adjourned with signatures from Mayor Eddie Haupt and City Clerk Amy S. Falowski.
