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2019年9月20日

每周回顾
NCDOT Funding in Head行; NCLM Joins Transpo Infrastructure Coalition
NCLM Endorses Duke Energy Carbon Reduction Goals
Sent to 政府ernor: Utilities Assistance; Rape-Kit Funds; Disaster Recovery
Revised 立法 District Maps Submitted
缴送工作职位

事情发生的经过: Lawmakers brought out new state legislative district maps (following that court decision calling the earlier maps too partisan-biased). Medicaid expansion returned to discussion. 资金问题在北方.C. Department of Transportation found public attention (and a response coalition; read on for details). And the budget stalemate, yes, 继续.

单词释义: A lot at once, partly what led Senate leader Phil Berger to announce that his chamber wouldn't be back for voting until 9月后. 30. The Insider State 政府ernment News Service quoted him calling recent times "fairly intense" with all the redistricting work. 房子 Speaker Tim Moore later said his chamber too was taking a breather.

利用: We're still in the "long" legislative session, with a number of big bills, like the farm act and for budget surplus rebates to taxpayers, still on the table and a full state budget 杰出的.

瘦子: 与此同时,政府. 罗伊•库珀 has been signing bills into law, 包括 five last week that included a couple of those "mini" budgets and a measure to move on untested rape 包. Details in this Bulletin.

NCDOT Funding in Head行; NCLM Joins Transpo Infrastructure Coalition

而 news of funding suspense 在北方.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has communities concerned about the state's current infrastructure and future needs, the League has joined a coalition seeking improvement. "North Carolina’s competitive economy depends on the health of our state’s transportation infrastructure," said NC Chamber President and CEO Gary Salamido in an 公开信 recruiting for the NC Can't Afford to Stop coalition, which by Friday morning had almost 100 prominent members from the worlds of business, economy and advocacy. The League was among 他们.

NC室 explains the problem on its website: Recent storms like Hurricanes Florence and Michael had costly tolls on infrastructure; meanwhile, NCDOT has had to pay millions of dollars in Map Act-related damages. “现在，NCDOT是 dangerously close to dropping below a legislative cash floor balance (of 7.5 percent) that our leaders agreed upon in order to be good stewards of the people’s dollars," the Chamber says, emphasizing that NCDOT won't be able to enter into new contracts if funds fall below the floor. "...已经, has suspended preliminary engineering for approximately 900 transportation projects across the state."

NC Can't Afford to Stop's webpage 关注 the stakes and solutions. "To move people and goods safely and efficiently, North Carolina must have a transportation network that can meet the demands of its rapidly increasing population," it says. "Predictable, consistent funding is a cornerstone of this process so that employers can hire and retain the employees needed to deliver the results their business is contracted to provide." More information is online at http://ncchamber.com/nc-cant-afford-to-stop-solutions.

NCLM Endorses Duke Energy Carbon Reduction Goals

The Board of Directors N的值.C. League of Municipalities this week approved a resolution supporting Duke Energy’s goals of carbon reduction in the state, 包括 a commitment to net-zero carbon emissions in North Carolina and five other states by 2050.

在批准 resolution, board members noted that Duke Energy’s carbon reduction goals advance broader and similar goals of North Carolina municipalities to cut carbon emissions through their own operations.

NCLM President William Pitt, a Council Member from Washington, noted that local governments across the state and nation have recognized the need for aggressive plans to reduce carbon emissions in order to be environmentally responsible.

The resolution praises Duke Energy for a commitment to deep carbon reductions “while continuing to provide electric service that meets the state’s mandates – and the expectations of North Carolina citizens and communities – for reliability, affordability and environmental responsibility, 包括 protections for low-income customers.”

Duke Energy this week announced an updated climate strategy of net-zero carbon emissions from electricity generation by 2050 and the acceleration of a nearer-术语 goal of cutting emission by 50 percent from 2005 levels by 2030. 该公司有 already reduced carbon emissions by 31 percent since 2005.

Sent to 政府ernor: Utilities Assistance; Rape-Kit Funds; Disaster Recovery

政府. 罗伊·库珀签名 into law this week a small stack of bills 包括 a disaster recovery measure and one to thin the backlog of untested rape 包 in North Carolina. 与此同时, a few other bills presented to the governor this week await consideration, 包括 SB 691 Emergency Operating Funds for Utilities. 那块, sent to 政府ernor Cooper's desk 周三, is meant to help small towns whose aging water and sewer systems need stability under market, environmental and population-change pressures on 他们 today. 该法案 would allow the use of emergency state reserve funding for deficits. Systems eligible would have to have been taken over by the Local 政府ernment Commission or had their operating authority or government lose its charter.

州长签署了 HB 29 Standing Up for Rape Victims Act of 2019 on Wednesday to, per the bill's longer title, "require testing of all sexual assault examination 包." It provides $3 million in nonrecurring funds for this and next fiscal year for a $6 million total to move on those 未经测试的测试包. 政府ernor Cooper also signed SB 429 Disaster Recovery - 2019 Budget Provisions, which makes transfers, appropriations, reversions and reallocations to the state's Hurricane Florence recovery fund and other relief or resiliency work. "As we push for federal changes to streamline disaster recovery money coming from Washington, our state disaster funding is more important than ever," 政府ernor Cooper commented.

In other news, Medicaid expansion -- something 政府ernor Cooper demanded in the state budget -- 又回到了谈判中, though in a different form. HB 655 NC 健康 Care for Working 家庭 is a Republican-sponsored bill to "provide health coverage to residents of North Carolina" and "to establish the North Carolina Rural Access to 健康care Grant Program.该法案包括 "whereas" clauses that point out the number of North Carolinians without health insurance (more than 1 million), which they may not be able to afford, and 这一 state is incurring the costs of caring for 他们. 该法案 is in the 房子 Rules Committee after a favorable report from the chamber's 健康 Committee this week. WRAL has more details about the bill's functions.

Revised 立法 District Maps Submitted

New maps for the state's 房子 and Senate districts won the chambers' approvals this week to replace versions 这一 court said were built on excessive partisan bias. 参议院的地图是 SB 692; the 房子's is HB 1020. 评审团最近裁定这一 districts, as redrawn two years ago, were in violation N的值orth Carolina Constitution and needed fixing by a deadline that arrived Wednesday. 法院 will de术语ine whether the new maps meet its standards. The Associated Press quoted Senate leader Phil Berger's optimism 这一y will indeed: "We are optimistic 这一 way we've handled this is not just consistent with what the court directed us to do, but (was) within the spirit of what the court wanted 我们要做的，”他说. Redistricting bills don't require the governor's 祝福. Lawsuits and changes over the federal and state electoral 行 in North Carolina have been a fact since the Republican-controlled legislature initially drew 他们 almost a decade ago. Similar legal battles occurred in the early 2000s after the Democratic-controlled legislature drew the district 行. It's a constitutional requirement 这一 legislature revise the maps after every decennial census, the next of which is just around the corner in 2020.

缴送工作职位

The deadline to apply for the National League of Cities Board of Directors is Tuesday, Sept. 24. "To be eligible to serve on the NLC Board you must be an elected official of a member city, or a chief executive officer of a state municipal league," NLC explains. "If you are an elected official, you must remain in office throughout your 术语 on the board. You may apply to serve on the board even if you will have to run for reelection during your board 术语." Board members serve two-year 术语s. A PDF has complete details 提交应用程序.