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Cleveland, NC town board had a special called meeting today Thursday 7-21-2022 at the town hall. All elected officials were in attendance. The meeting started with Mayor Pat Phifer saying that he would like for the town to change banks from First Horizon to F&M. F&M is a local bank with branches across the county. First Horizon is not local and has had at least three buy outs recently according to Phifer. F&M will charge some fees that First Horizon has not while F&M will pay interest on some accounts that F&M has not.  "It's probably not a nickel difference," said Phifer.  Phifer went on to say that the town needed the protection offered by F&M which is not an option with First Horizon. He explained that the town would pay "maybe $25 extra" a month for security which covered things like being hacked. Phifer said that hackers are currently using checks to get information to drain accounts and that churches are a prime target. He said that...

 Cleveland town board met tonight 7-11-2022 for the month of July. All board members and the mayor were in attendance as well as town hall employees and the police chief. A few town residents were in attendance, but no one signed up to address the board. Town May Be Getting Rid of Some Road Easements   Board members discussed eliminating easements in town. The agenda specified the easement on N. Depot St; however, mayor Pat Phifer said that several easements needed to be removed from the town map, because there is not enough land to run roads, and the town is not planning to run any roads in the areas of the easements. He mentioned a couple of other easements including one from Cemetery St to the pump station and behind the Lion's Club. The easement on N. Depot runs through the woods to the next road. There are two houses going in at the end of N. Depot and to the left. If the easement is in place, only one more house can go at the end of the road, but if the easement is elimi...