Mecklenburg County Commission

Mecklenburg County Commissioners held a meeting Wednesday with the leaders of the county's towns and municipalities to look for a solution for a contract impasse between medic and first responders.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners received an update Tuesday on its collaboration with a local nonprofit to combat homelessness in the county — and heard there's more work to be done.

Before the March primary, the LGBTQ+ Meck Dems gave Democratic Mecklenburg Commissioner Pat Cotham one of its lowest ratings: “Insufficient.” Cotham has long been an outspoken advocate for the LGBT community, wearing rainbow tutus at the August Pride parade and supporting the passage of a county nondiscrimination ordinance.

The Mecklenburg County Commission got a major shakeup on Tuesday, with longtime At-Large Commissioner Pat Cotham trailing by a large margin for one of the three at-large seats.

Mecklenburg County Commissioners voted 5-3 Wednesday night to move forward with putting $2.5 billion worth of school bonds on the ballot for voters this November. The referendum would be the largest school bond issue in state history and would fund 30 major school construction or renovation projects for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

Mecklenburg Commissioners voted Thursday to spend $30 million to help support a proposed tennis complex that would be built west of the airport.

County commissioners gave their preliminary approval to Mecklenburg’s $2.3 billion budget Thursday morning in a straw vote session. One item that commissioners are split on, however, is Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ request for a $2.5 billion bond package, which won approval in the budget by one vote.

Mecklenburg residents are all but certain to see property tax hikes in the coming years, as the county deals with rising costs and funds ambitious projects. At a meeting Tuesday, commissioners heard that they’ll likely have to raise property taxes in order to fund the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new facilities they want to build.

Vice chair Elaine Powell asked if county commissioners could appeal the property tax values of golf courses, presumably to see if they could get a higher value. Tax assessor Ken Joyner said any property owner in Mecklenburg County can appeal any property valuation.