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A controversial request from the Wake
Forest College Birthplace Society for
half a million dollars to help construct
an annex to the museum on North Main
Street will be part of the agenda when
the Wake Forest Town Board meets next
Tuesday night.
In May, Town Manager Mark
Williams did not recommend the society’s
$550,000 request for funding, and the
commissioners did not add it to the new
budget that began July 1.
But some commissioners have
said they want to see the town assist in
the annex project in some way, probably
spread over two or more years. Williams
has met with the society president,
Susan Brinkley, and members of the
board.
Brinkley or another society
representative is scheduled to give a
presentation early in the meeting.
Also giving a presentation
will Tom Iversen, the chairman of the
Downtown Revitalization Corporation. The
DRC is applying to be included in the
state’s Main Street program, and the
commissioners are scheduled to vote on a
resolution approving that application.
The agenda calls for a
closed session right after the public
hearings to discuss the new town hall
site. Last month the board instructed
Williams and attorney Eric Vernon to
continue negotiations.
The only public hearing is
one continued from last month, the
annexation of the Willfair Property on
Rogers Road.
The board will also consider
a recommendation by the comprehensive
planning committee for an increased
water allocation – 60 building permits
per year rather than the standard 40 for
new subdivisions – for the proposed
Village at Wake Forest subdivision on
North Main Street, the Calvin Ray
property.
The other planning items
were heard and voted on by the planning
board on Tuesday, July 11. Those were a
request to rezone three properties at
the corner of Burlington Mills Road and
Capital Boulevard to highway business,
their initial zoning after annexation.
The planning board also reviewed the
phase 3 master plan for the Wildflower
subdivision, a 10-lot single-family
tract.
The rhythm of the town board
meetings was out of step this month
because of the Fourth of July. That was
on the first Tuesday when the board
holds its work sessions and the planning
board meets. Instead, both bodies met
yesterday, July 11, and the complete
agenda for the third-Tuesday town board
meeting could not be completed until
later this week.
The town board meeting
begins at 7 p.m., and the commissioners
may amend the agenda at that time. |
