My fellow citizens, supporters, and friends, On behalf of my family and campaign, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you, the citizens of Morrisville for four more years. I look forward to continuing to work with my colleagues on the Council to enhance our quality of life, address our transporation challenges, […]

This week was a very productive office hours, with two very key meetings, which made me very excited. Airport Mall Project I met with the former owners of the mall, Govind and Pratik Chandak along with the new owners, who are excited to meet with staff, submit plans for the China Town.    They have […]

Yesterday, evening, I attended, along with my father, the Ernest Dollar lecture, on the Battle of Gettysburg. As a member of the Town Council, I was very proud of this event, and thank Shannon and Ben for putting this event together.   Ernest provided an insightful lecture on the Morrisville soldiers, who fought in the […]

Our evening began with the Fireweek Prevention Proclamation and I opened with an Invocation. Swearing in of Martha Wheelock  The highlight of the evening was the swearing in of Martha Wheelock by Mayor Holcombe. The presentation of the colors added, as always, a very inspiring feeling to the special moment in our history. Each of […]

Last week, very productive office hours were held with members of the community. I met with Morrisville resident Samudra Vijay, founder of Sam IT Solutions, a local information technology firm,  who provided me ideas of how the Town should be looking at more hosted, cloud services for email, and also how to reduce investments in […]

Congratulations to the Town of Morrisville, staff, and all involved as we the Town received the Anthemion Award for the historic preservation of the Pugh House by the Wake County Historic Preservation Society. Congratulations to all winners, and once again, this is a great day for Morrisville as we now have one more historic landmark […]

Last Wednesday, I attended the Innovate Raleigh Summitt, at the Raleigh Convention Center, and thank Jon Leonardo and his team for organizing a series of events, all throughout the Triangle focused on Entrepreneurship. Here is my summary of what the panelists and particpants came up with  ideas, I would like to take back to Morrisville, […]

This week, Office hours, were not too busy but I did have a few interesting meetings: Open Data I had a few IT execs who live in Morrisville, very interested in the Town moving forward with an Open Data Initiative.   The main reasons cited were the success in having citizens develop apps, which can […]

On Tuesday, we had a very productive Council meeting with much activity and interesting discussion. Western Wake Farmers Market  The evening began with a presentation from Jim Pellegrini, President of the Western Wake Farmers Market.    Key benefits of a Farmers Market included the economic benefits, the growth of entrepreneurs in the food industry, and […]

This week,  we returned to Friday Office Hours and it was an interesting week. Allan Cassavant:   Met with Allan briefly to discuss the Senior Community Project, and he is still looking at options for land purchase.   There has been some hold up but he would like to move forward with this project. Immigration […]