Raleigh Chamber Partners Dinner

Last evening, I attended the Raleigh Chamber Partners Dinner, an event to celebrate the vision for Wake County and to celebrate the achievments of the Wake County School Board, the Wake County Commissioners, and the City of Raleigh. Thanks to all the sponsors and also many companies were in attendance as well. The networking reception […]

Celebrating Treasurer Cowell’s Birthday

Yesterday, evening, I had the honor of celebrating Treasurer Cowell’s birthday at Sitti in Raleigh.    Former Mayor Charles Meeker and a number of other elected officials were in attendance.    Great to see his wife, Dr. Anne Mcclaurin! I congratulate her on being an excellent Treasurer and am very interested in the continued success […]

Dancing in the Park

Yesterday, evening, I attended the Dancing in the Park, event, hosted by the South East Raleigh Assembly. This program offers Aerobic Dancing classes, to citizens for free, to offer exercise to residents of South East Raleigh.  I Danced in the Park, when I ran for Wake County Commissioner in 2010! SERA also provides youth entreprenuership […]

Regional Transportation TCC Lunch

I attended the Regional Transportation lunch, hosted by the Triangle Community Coalition. Joe Milazzo, Executive Director, of Regional Transit Authority, addressed the delegation of Wake County Elected officials and citizens.     I will be putting his presentaton on the site in a few days, when it is released. Legislative Priorities: Joe laid out the […]

Asian Focus Summer Picnic

I attended the Asian Focus Summer Picnic yesterday afternoon. Asian Focus is a Community Organization, comprised of Asian Americans across the state and region. They are a wonderful organization, whose primary mission is to bring the Asian community together, to address issues, which affect them, along with also identifying economic opportunities to esablish partnerships with […]

Senior Citizens meeting at Bond Park

Yesterday, I met with the Senior Citizen  Group in Indian community at Bond Park to address a number of issues and there were over 60 residents from Morrisville there. The main area of concern was infrastructure/road congestion  and the need for better bus service from Morrisville to other municipalities in Wake County. I explained our […]

July 11 Office Hours

My Thursday Office Hours were productive and interesting as always. First, I met with Carlos Sanchez, Government Relations Specialist for AT &T, who assembled a team from his company to brief me on the League of Municipalities Cell Phone Ordinance, which provided guidelines to municipalities on Telecommunications Plans, affecting Cell phone coverage, and  the installation […]

Extreme Networks Ribbon Cutting

I attended the Extreme Networks Ribbon Cutting on Thursday at the RDU Center. Their state of the art offices will enable the technology company to grow and I was impressed with their visionary CEO, Chris Berger, whom we were trying to convince to move to Morrisville from the Bay Area. Mayor Holcombe, Councilmember Lori Bush, […]