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Mayor
Vivian Jones responded in strikingly different ways Tuesday night to the two
presentations on the town board’s work session agenda.
Thad
Woodard, the president of the North Carolina Bankers Association, and Patricia
Evans came to ask the commissioners to pledge $50,000 for the Hospice of Wake
County inpatient hospice facility to be built in Cary. The groundbreaking will
be today, Oct. 4. “If you could just do something so that we could announce it
Thursday, it would be wonderful,” Woodard said.
Evans
said eight of the 12 county municipalities are contributing. This is the second
time Hospice officials have come to ask the town to participate.
When
Woodard and Evans finished, Jones asked them how patients pay for the care, the
number of people in Wake Forest who have used Hospice and whether Hospice has
changed its policy about care recently.
After
that, she told them that because it was a work session, “We cannot take action
before Thursday.”
At
the close of the work session, it appeared no commissioner wanted to place the
request on the Oct. 16 regular meeting agenda.
The
second presentation was by Jeffrey York with the North Carolina Arts Council. He
was supported by members of the Wake Forest Cultural Arts Association: Barbara
and Speed Massenburg, Gail Joyner, Robin and Pete Hendricks and Jim Wallace.
York’s
PowerPoint presentation showed how communities in North Carolina have
incorporated art and design into public buildings and spaces.
When
he finished, Jones asked if he could furnish her the information from the
presentation and some more information about how a town would begin to use art.
The
council has small grants for communities to help with work with a consultant to
plan how to use art and work with an artist and how to implement the plan.
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