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April 17, 2006

On the Agenda: Jamestown Council

Tomorrow is Jamestown's monthly meeting and the agenda is a little meatier than the last couple of months.

Here are some of the bigger things they're considering:

* Establishing a long-range land development plan for the town and it's extraterritorial jurisdiction (the area outside of town limits that Jamestown is responsible for planning). The town does not have a similar plan and creating one would be an 18-month to two-year process.

* Endorsing the Piedmont Triad Council of Governments' efforts to protect cable t.v. licensing. Local governments typically have a franchising right with cable tv based on the premise that cable lines are in public rights-of-way. There are bills in Congress that would transfer those franchising rights to the FCC or damage a local government's ability to collect its fees as telephone companies are attempting to enter the cable market. PTCOG is asking its members to endorse a resolution in support of the existing system.

* Approval of a solid waste management plan.

* Setting a public hearing to expand the extraterritorial jurisdiction. They're looking at adding three acres off Mackay Road near Guilford College Road.

What: Jamestown Council
When: 7 p.m. Tuesday (April 18)
Where: Jamestown Town Hall

Posted by Jonathan Jones at April 17, 2006 11:00 AM