West Rowan News, Events, and Fun

    Town board of Cleveland, North Carolina met today Friday 3-25-2022 at 3:30 p.m. for a special called meeting. No one was present other than board members, the town clerk, and this writer from West Rowan News, Events, & Fun. The meeting started at 3:37 and lasted less than 40 minutes. Items on the agenda included four expenditures which required town board votes. Two were approved unanimously, and two will be held over. The first item up for vote was $5000 for a line item to the budget for Miller/Davis which is a PR firm out of Salisbury. The company built the town web site to replace the existing one. The $5000 was added to cover training and maintenance. Maintenance would include adding items to the web site or making changes.  Last February, the board voted to pay $7800 for set up of the web site and $4664 for maintenance at the monthly town board meeting.  The second item on the agenda was the electronic/digital town board sign which will replace the existing sign. Town boar

  Cleveland, NC town board met tonight 3-14-2022 with things more like our old "normal." Commissioners were back at their desk, citizens were in rows with no spacing, and no one wore masks after many, long months of Covid precautions.  The town welcomed new hire Financial Officer Rebekah Brown who started at the last meeting as an observer. She joins Kelly Rodgers at Town Hall. Brown grew up in the area as did Rodgers. In other employee business, John Ritchie's contract was extended at full-time through June 30 due to medical concerns in the wastewater treatment department. After June, he will shift to part-time status per the last town board meeting.  The town voted for a new contractor for chemicals at the wastewater plant. The change results in a savings of $5237 per year per Commissioner Gerald Osborne who said that commissioners should be looking at annual cost savings in all areas.  The mowing contract for the town was approved for this year. The town voted to pay f