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Town manager announces farmers market, software conversion assessment, and $400,000 asset‑mapping grants
Summary
Town Manager Kamara Barnett announced the Caswell Farmers Market schedule, an April assessment for conversion to MAS Black Mountain ahead of a 2025 implementation, and Division of Water Infrastructure grants totaling $400,000 to support water and sewer asset inventory and GIS mapping.
Town Manager Kamara Barnett told the council the Caswell Farmers Market will open Thursday, April 18 and run Thursdays through Sept. 19 from 4:00–6:30 p.m. at the town pavilion. She said the town will undergo an initial assessment for conversion to the Municipal Accounting Software (MAS) Black Mountain on April 4 with Martin & Starnes P.A. and a North Carolina League of Municipalities (NCLM) representative; the MAS conversion work is planned for 2025.
Barnett also reported the town received Division of Water Infrastructure grants in 2023—$150,000 for the sewer system and $250,000 for the water system, totaling $400,000—to fund an asset inventory assessment and mapping. She said engineering firm AWCK has started work to map the collections/sewer system and build a GIS database for the town’s water distribution system to replace paper maps and address discrepancies found in the field.
Why this matters: the grants and the planned accounting-software conversion are intended to improve the town’s asset management and financial systems, which staff and the council identified as priorities amid ongoing financial and operational work.
