事情发生的经过: After a brief pause, the legislature reconvened in Raleigh this week with
重划选区 the marquee task, though doors were open for additional topics. 解决N.C. 运输部(NCDOT)
资金问题, in a bill now on the governor's desk, along with teacher pay came up. Lawmakers also approved a disaster recovery bill we'll examine in this Bulletin.
单词释义: Lawsuits and arguments and policy questions have clung to
重划选区 for a long time and can flame-up party lines like little else, which may give this session a certain inescapable tone. 但这意味着要快, with lawmakers soon heading home for the remainder of 2019 (and coming back shortly into 2020).
利用: 尽管如此, some lawmakers opposed leaving the current session without passage of a comprehensive state budget, which has been a lasting donnybrook for North Carolina. House Minority Leader Darren Jackson and his party protested an
休会的决议 在此基础上. 在撰写本文时，账单包括
NCDOT资金 和
风暴复苏 pieces were on the governor's desk awaiting action.
瘦子: The Senate is scheduled for a voting session today at 2 p.m., with a UNC Board of Governors vacancy on the agenda. The 休会的决议 passed the House on a 58-42 party liner and is now in a Senate committee for consideration. Currently, it doesn’t specify an adjournment date; it only says it’s effective upon ratification.
议员们已经任命了奥巴马州长. 罗伊•库珀's desk a package bill with more infusions in the state's recovery from recent years’ heavy seasonal storms.
HB 200 would allocate $70 million in nonrecurring funds to the Hurricane Florence Disaster Recovery Fund as a source of matching dollars for assistance programs; allocate more than $33 million to a separate fund for ugly storms Matthew, Michael and Dorian; and nearly $18 million for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund 和 Drinking Water Revolving Fund.
市政当局对此特别感兴趣, the bill allocates $15 million to Golden LEAF for grants that local governments unsuccessful with past relief-aid deadlines could access. Local governments could also use the state's list of pre-qualified contractors for bidding on recovery contracts to speed things up. 它给出了N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency $10 million for flexible local government loans to help with cash flow while they await reimbursements. The same office gets $5 million for local government grants related to Dorian.
While it received nearly unanimous approval across the legislature, it hadn't received a verdict from the governor as of this writing. (News outlets had reported on a provision in the bill that
反响不佳 库珀州长的办公室. It stated that "all funds received by the State, 包括现金赠与和捐赠, shall be deposited into the State treasury," which the governor's office reportedly saw as a power grab.)
计划草案 for spending nearly $170 million from the Community Development Block Grant Mitigation fund for better resiliency is ready for public comment. 重建数控, a state program under the Office of Recovery and Resiliency, says comments -- due Dec. 23 -- should go to publiccomments@rebuild.nc.gov, or by mail to Attn: Mitigation Action Plan, P.O. Box 110465, Durham, NC 27709, or in person at a public hearing. Two of them are planned for early December; 重建数控 says details will be announced. The bulk of the funding eyes property buyouts in floodplains. “North Carolinians who have seen unprecedented storm damage over the last couple of years know we must rebuild stronger and smarter,州长说。. 罗伊•库珀. "I encourage storm survivors to weigh in during the public comment period so we can continue to get assistance to those who need it." A 简报 about the program offers specifics for anyone wanting to better understand mitigation and how the funding could be used.
