Mecklenburg County Commission

Mecklenburg County Commissioners will get an update Tuesday night on Historic Latta Plantation.

Mecklenburg Commissioners voted Wednesday to require people at indoor religious services to wear masks.

Mecklenburg County Commissioner Vilma Leake said the county began vaccinations in north Mecklenburg County before Charlotte's west side. An examination of Mecklenburg County health department records shows that's not correct.

Huntersville Mayor John Aneralla sent a letter to the Mecklenburg County Commission questioning the legality of the county's indoor mask mandate, which takes effect Aug. 31.

Mecklenburg County has received state approval to split from Cardinal Innovations Healthcare, after more than a year of accusing Cardinal of poor service.

Mecklenburg County and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board will pay $25,533 to the lawyer who mediated their recent budget dispute.

Some of the week's biggest stories: Mecklenburg County and CMS move on from their dispute over $56 million, Nikole Hannah-Jones moves on from UNC, and Mecklenburg's health director plans to move on to retirement after leading COVID-19 efforts.

A six-week budget standoff between Mecklenburg County commissioners and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board over $56 million is over. The county agreed to give the district the money — along with an extra $11 million.

Some of this week's top stories from WFAE: Mecklenburg County and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools are headed to formal mediation over a county budget that withholds millions of dollars from the district pending a detailed plan on improving educational outcomes for Black and Hispanic children, a planned (and since-canceled) event at Latta Plantation set for Juneteenth drew condemnation from public officials and a defense from the organizer, and lawmakers are closer to delaying municipal elections in some North Carolina cities because of delays in census data.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg sSchool board requested formal mediation Monday after talks with Mecklenburg County commissioners failed to resolve a funding dispute that centers on the county’s decision to temporarily withhold $56 million from the school system.