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2020年11月20日

每周回顾
COVID Alert System: Latest Tool for Local Leaders Amid Case Rise; NCLM Board Discusses
Berger, Moore Keep NCGA Leadership Posts
A Look At Municipal Experience in the New NCGA
State Officials Approve Viable Utility Reserve Implementation

WHAT HAPPENED: 新型冠状病毒肺炎 cases climbed to alarming new levels, with yet another record-breaking single-day tally of new cases in North Carolina – nearly 4,300. As of Thursday, there were 325,158 total cases across the state. Hospitalizations hit a new record Friday at 1,571. Forty-three people died of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, WRAL just reported.

WHAT IT MEANS: For contrast, the single-day record breaker on Nov. 11 was just beyond 3,100. A little more than 1,260 were hospitalized. New efforts are underway to change the course, and the League's Board of Directors has discussed actions for the community level.

ON TAP: 的 state this week announced a new tool that may help local leaders better understand what’s on the ground in their areas and see where the highest case numbers are, with recommendations from the state to fight back. 它叫做新型冠状病毒肺炎 County Alert System and we explain how it works in this Bulletin.

THE SKINNY: We also report on legislative leadership and the ever-important municipal experience in the chambers headed into the new biennium. But it’s so vital to recognize where we are in this pandemic and to follow experts’ advice and resources to stabilize the situation. 的 quicker we do, the better off our communities – livelihoods, families, economies – will be.

COVID Alert System: Latest Tool for Local Leaders Amid Case Rise; NCLM Board Discusses

North Carolina had 317,495 新型冠状病毒肺炎 cases and nearly 5,000 deaths recorded by Tuesday as Gov. Roy Cooper and Department of 健康 and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Mandy Cohen announced a new county alert system to help pinpoint where the highest numbers are and make recommendations to change the trajectory. “We are seeing more people need hospital care than ever before,” Cohen reported at a public briefing announcing the new tool. 的新型冠状病毒肺炎 County Alert System “will help give local leaders another tool to understand how their county is faring and to make decisions about actions to slow viral spread,” a 新闻稿解释. “的 map will be updated every four weeks.”

On Thursday, the state announced the highest single-day increase of positive tests: 4,296. “的 record-high day follows several days of increasing trends in new cases, the percent of tests that are positive and hospitalizations,” DHHS said in a statement. Said Governor Cooper, “By pinpointing counties with high virus transmission and asking everyone in those counties to work with us and do more right now to slow the spread of the virus, 我们能成功.”

警报系统， visualized as a map of North Carolina counties, uses three tiers to portray severity – yellow (significant community spread), orange (substantial community spread), and red (critical community spread).

DHHS also offers the SlowCOVIDNC Exposure Notification app, which can notify users if they’ve been in close contact with someone who has reported a positive coronavirus test result to the app.

罗利新闻 & 观察者 has further coverage.

NCLM Board Discusses Community 健康, Local Businesses

相关新闻, the League's Board of Directors 见过 this week to discuss how cities and towns can help keep their communities safe and healthy and also prevent sweeping closures to businesses. Local government is uniquely qualified to take a proactive role encouraging their residents to follow public health guidelines to slow the spread, which ultimately keeps businesses open and the economy going. 的 League's staff is compiling outreach resources and data to help members share these important public health and safety messages locally. Be on the lookout for a message sharing those materials early next week.

Berger, Moore Keep NCGA Leadership Posts

房子 Speaker Tim Moore and 参议院 leader Phil Berger are set to continue in their chamber leadership roles in the new biennium. 代表的消息. Moore broke this week as the 房子代表ublican caucus held elections for the top posts. 代表. Moore would be in his fourth term as speaker. 根据代表. Moore’s news release about the nomination, that would tie the state record for most; the only previous 房子 speaker with four terms in the role was 代表. 利斯顿B. Ramsey (1981-1989). 的 chamber will formally vote on the speaker role when the session begins in January.

Also continuing in their roles, per the caucus elections this week, are 代表s. Sarah Stevens (speaker pro tem), John Bell (majority leader), and Brendan Jones (deputy majority leader). 代表. John Szoka will be conference leader, 代表. Jon Hardister will be majority whip, and 代表. Pat Hurley will be joint conference leader.

A Look At Municipal Experience in the New NCGA

Roughly 20 percent of the incoming General Assembly membership for the next biennium will have municipal experience to call upon in their legislating. 的y include mayors, 委员会成员, planning commissioners and the like, with 26 of them in the 房子 and 9 in the 参议院. New or returning to the legislature, they are:

参议院

区5, 森. 唐·戴维斯, 雪山市长

区6, 森. 迈克尔·兰, Mayor Pro Tem, Jacksonville (pic'd here)

区19日 森. 柯克deViere, Council Member, Fayetteville

区22号 森. 高管迈克Woodard, Council Member, Durham

区23日 森. 瓦莱丽Foushee, Chapel Hill Police Department

区26日 森. 菲尔·伯杰 律师,Mayodan

区44岁 森. 泰德亚历山大市长，谢尔比

地区47岁 森. 拉尔夫Hise, Mayor, Spruce Pine

区49岁 森. 朱莉·梅菲尔德, Council Member, Asheville

房子

区8, 代表. Kandie史密斯, Mayor and Council Member, Greenville

区9日 代表. 布莱恩·法卡斯, Greenville Comprehensive Planning Committee

区12日 代表. 克里斯-汉弗莱, Council Member, La Grange

区13日 代表. 帕特McElraft, Commissioner, Emerald Isle

区26日 代表. 唐娜白色, Clayton Planning Commission, Board of Adjustment

区27日 代表. 迈克尔·雷, Commissioner, Gaston

区28日 代表. 拉里·斯特里克兰, Commissioner, Pine Level

地区29日 代表. Vernetta阿尔斯通, Council Member, Durham

区27日 代表. 艾琳削减, Holly Springs Board of Adjustment

区41岁 代表. 盖尔·阿德科克, Mayor Pro Tem, Cary (pic'd here)

区42岁 代表. Marvin Lucas, Mayor, Alderman, Spring Lake

区49岁 代表. Cynthia Ball, Raleigh Service Commission

区61年 代表. 约翰•Faircloth Council Member, High Point, Chief of Police, High Point/Salisbury

区71年 代表. 伊芙琳·特里, Council Member, Winston-Salem

区73年 代表. 李扎卡里, Mayor, Commissioner, Yadkinville

区74年 代表. 杰夫曾, Council Member, Lewisville

区79年 代表. 茱莉亚•霍华德, Commissioner, Mocksville

区89年 代表. 米切尔Setzer设计, Mayor, Commissioner, Catawba

区92年 代表. 特里·布朗, Charlotte Board of Adjustment

区93年 代表. 雷皮科特, Council Member, Blowing Rock

区94年 代表. 杰弗里·爱尔摩, Commissioner, North Wilkesboro

区98 代表. 约翰·布拉德福德, Council Member, Cornelius

区99年 代表. Nasif马吉德, Council Member, Charlotte

区100年 代表. 约翰Autry, Council Member, Charlotte

区107年 代表. 凯利亚历山大, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission

区119年 代表. 迈克Clampitt, Firefighter, Charlotte

的 General Assembly has an official Municipal Caucus, formed in 2015. “的 mission of the (Municipal) Caucus is to create an opportunity and open environment for legislators who are former mayors, city council representatives, attorneys or employees to offer education about the state-city partnership, and to share information and ideas about legislation that will impact city government,” the formation letter stated. “Active participation by caucus members will bring greater awareness to the decisions made at the state level and how they will practically affect services to citizens at the city level.”

Past coverage from 南部城市: Municipal Caucus: 的 Lawmakers Bringing City Government Experience to the General Assembly

State Officials Approve Viable Utility Reserve Implementation

的 State Water Infrastructure Authority (SWIA) 见过周三批准的标准 to identify distressed water and wastewater systems; their approval followed the Local Government Commission (LGC) taking the same action the week prior.. Session Law 2020-79 created the Viable Utility Reserve (VUR) fund – a new grant program to support financially struggling public water and wastewater systems by facilitating viable operations and encouraging regionalization – and tasked the LGC and SWIA with developing criteria together to identify utilities that are in distress

的 VUR fund received $9 million in non-recurring state funds in 2020, and at their most recent meetings SWIA and LGC also identified four utilities as distressed, directing VUR grant funding to those utilities. Session Law 2020-79 was the result of a yearlong legislative study and stakeholder process that focused on the more than $17 billion in water and sewer infrastructure needs statewide.