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Charlotte Talks
12:00 am
Wed May 15, 2013

City Manager Ron Carlee

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Charlotte City Manager Ron Carlee

At just a few weeks into his tenure as city manager, Ron Carlee has no shortage of city issues to occupy him. There's the airport governance study and his take on the results… and then there's the city budget, which he just presented last week. The streetcar has been making news for some time, but this week, city council made time to discuss its future during their meeting. We'll talk with Ron Carlee about the most important city issues he's dealing with as he hits the ground running, when Charlotte Talks.

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Local News
5:44 am
Mon May 13, 2013

Carlee To Recommend Streetcar Plan

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Tonight, City Manager Ron Carlee will propose a new funding plan to extend the streetcar already underway in Uptown Charlotte.

  Once again, the Charlotte City Council is talking streetcars. It's a topic that has dominated even those meetings when it wasn't on the council's agenda.  Monday night it actually is.


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Local News
6:02 pm
Sun May 5, 2013

Manager Carlee To Present First City Budget

New city manager Ron Carlee makes his first big mark on Charlotte Monday night when he presents his 2014 budget and capital investment plan – or CIP - to city council.  But speaking at WFAE's recent public conversation, Carlee made clear this budget won't really be his own.

"I came in on the city council's last (bugdet) workshop, which meant that four days later the budget goes into production," explained Carlee. "So there's not going to be much of my stamp on this CIP – it will be very similar to what has been out there previously."

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Local News
4:00 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

One Charlotte, Or Many? A WFAE Public Conversations Preview

It's time again for the city of Charlotte to draw up its annual budget – including a renewed push to raise property taxes for capital projects. Last year's capital investment program proved so large – and divisive – that the council and mayor couldn't agree on any plan.  They still can't. And in the interim, those divisions have proven to run deeper than city council politics.  They've shown up across Charlotte and they're the topic of a special WFAE public forum Thursday at 7 p.m. at Spirit Square. 

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