Budget, Development Fees Take Center Stage at Meeting
"I've been against them [pay raises for council]. I don't know how the council feels about them," said Nagle. He was joined by Vice Mayor Jeff McKenna, who responded, "I'm not very positive on them either.
Beach-Ferrara Requests Shift in Opioid Plan
Buncombe County Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara argued that her peers should begin positioning themselves to plan to spend Opioid Settlement funds for more naloxone administration. Other commissioners saw this as an attempt to override equally-important interventions they had agreed to support previously.
Council Debates Water Equity
Asheville City Council approved rate changes for the next fiscal year. They mostly followed staff recommendations, except they wanted to postpone voting on residential water rates until manufacturers and other high-volume water users could be made to shoulder more of the costs of running the system.