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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

160D-1311 (a)(2) provides broad authority for a local government to appropriate and expend funds for “community development programs and activities,” including programs “concerned with employment, economic development, crime prevention, child care, health, drug abuse, education, and welfare needs of persons of low and moderate income.”

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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

community members have started their own website, taking petitions door to door, leafleting the neighborhood and holding meetings in the park. another set of community members have done the same things but they are seeking the complete opposite outcome. Hostility is unhealthy – for individuals and for communities.