Fayetteville Street Planning Group

908 Fayetteville Street Suite 201
Durham, NC 27701
ph: 919-680-2878
info@fayettevillestreetgroup.com

Voting Watch

The voting watch page was added in 2009 to highlight laws and resolutions that have been passed or are being considered for passage by the folks we've voted into public office. Our goals are to educate our elected officals about issues of importance to the neighborhoods in the Fayetteville Street corridor and to encourage them to adopt policies that we feel will advance our community's vision for its future.

We expect that laws and policies endorsed by our elected officials would support:

Streets that are safe 24/7 for residents, businesses and visitors to the Fayetteville Street corridor
Neighborhood-friendly planning, land use and zoning to protect Fayetteville Street neighborhood residents and businesses from inappropriate development pressure and to prevent the displacement of local residents and businesses
Neighborhood economic development to support local Fayetteville Street residents and businesses already located in our neighborhoods
Vocational skills training for area students and adults in the Fayetteville Street corridor to reduce the area's high unemployment rate

We will share the individual votes (or lack thereof) on specific issues by our elected officials so that you know where they stand when it comes to our neighborhoods. We also plan to cover state and national issues where our local opinions will help influence important policies and votes.

For your convenience, the emails of our local and state elected officials are listed below.

Durham City Council:

Bill Bell bill.bell@durhamnc.gov
Cora Cole-Mcfadden cora.cole-mcfadden@durhamnc.gov
Diane Catotti diane.catotti@durhamnc.gov
Eugene Brown eugene.brown@durhamnc.gov
Farad Ali farad.ali@durhamnc.gov
Howard Clement howard.clement@durhamnc.gov
Mike Woodard mike.woodard@durhamnc.gov

Durham County Commission:

Joe Bowser jbowser@nc.rr.com
Becky Heron bmheron@durhamcountync.gov
Brenda Howerton bhowerton@durhamcountync.gov
Michael Page mpage@durhamcountync.gov
Ellen Reckhow ereckhow@aol.com

Durham County:

District Attorney
Sheriff
Clerk of Court

North Carolina State Judges:

Supreme Court

Appeals Court

District Court

North Carolina General Assembly:

Senate

Bob Atwater

House of Representatives

Floyd McKissick Floydm@ncleg.net
Mickey Michaux Mickeym@ncleg.net
Larry Hall Larryh@ncleg.net
Paul Luebke Paull@ncleg.net
Winkie Wilkins Winkiew@ncleg.net

The report card format below will be used to identify issues which have been deemed important to stakeholders in the Fayetteville Street Corridor and to identify any action taken by elected officials on these issues. Although some of these issues were raised at this meeting, several were previously identified at the Feb. 16, 2009 preliminary budget hearing, at other budget public hearings since 1999 and in the 2005 Fayetteville Street Neighborhood Master Plan.

In the approved budget for FY (Fiscal Year) 2009-2010, Fayetteville Street advocates asked that the following items be approved and funded (in black). Results for FY 2010-2011 are shown in blue.

Item	Ali	Bell	Brown	Catotti	Clement	Cole- McFadden	Woodard
More walking & bicycle police patrols	No FY 09 No FY 10	No No	No No	No No	No No	No No	No No
Streetscape funding	No FY 09 No FY 10	No No	No No	No No	No No	No No	No No
Adopt Fayetteville Street Plan	No FY 09 No FY 10	No No	No No	No No	No No	No No	No No
Solve drainage problem - 3115 Fayetteville St. south of Pilot St	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Redirect 30% of housing code enforcement funding to emergency rehab funds for seniors	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Sidewalk repair on Moline St. and Price St.	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
4-way traffic signal at Riddle Rd. and S. Alston Avenue	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Traffic signal at Fayetteville Street and Nelson Street	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Adaptive reuse of Whitted Building for vocational school	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

908 Fayetteville Street Suite 201
Durham, NC 27701
ph: 919-680-2878
info@fayettevillestreetgroup.com