2009 City of Monroe

Event Schedule 

Open Air Market/Fresh Market
April-September
1^st and 3^rd Thursday
April 2, 16
May 7, 21
June 4, 18
July 2, 16
August 6, 20
September 3, 17

Classic Car Cruise In
April-October
Second Friday
April 10
May 8
June 12
July 10
August 14
September 11
October 9

 Home Tour
Holiday, November date anticipated

Music on Main (in partnership with Breakfast Rotary)
Second Thursday
May 14            Summerdaze
June 11            Right Turn Clyde
August 13       Too Much Sylvia
September 10  The Embers


Movies on the Plaza
Fourth Friday
May 22
June 26
August 28
September 25

Halloween Happenings
Parks & Recreation/Downtown Monroe
Third Saturday, 17 October 2009      

Tree Lighting
Parks & Recreation/Downtown Monroe
First Saturday, 5 December 2009

Political Effectiveness and Personal Responsibility

Public Financing for :  State Auditor, Supt. Of Public Instruction & Commissioner of Insurance and Judicial Races

HB 2542:  Clarify Ethics & Lobbying Laws

Crime & Justice

SB 1358 - $10 M Street Gang Prevention and Intervention Act - Signed

• Will create new felons
• Cost NC Millions

HB 274 - Street Gang Prevention Act - Awaiting Signature

• Gives teenage offenders opportunity to get back on track

HB 2436 -

• $22.6 M - Restore JCPC Funding
• $500,000 - Expand JCPC Funding

HB 1291 - Racial Justice Act

• Never made it out of committee (would allow defendents in capital murder cases to challenge prosecution on grounds of racial bias.

Education

HB 2436-

• $1 M Expand Community College Technical Ed Programs
• $4 M Expand Community College Allied Health Programs
• $15 M Drop-out Prevention Grants
• $3.5 M Learn & Earn High Schools
• 3% Teacher Pay Increases
• $34.6 M University System Enrollment Growth
• $23.7 M Community College System Enrollment Growth

Economic Empowerment

Three bills awaiting signature:

HB 2623 - Emergency Foreclosure Reduction Program

• Help sub-prime mortgage holders avoid foreclosure

HB 2188 - Earlier Notification of Mortgage Servicer Fee

• Prohibits bonus payments to mortgage brokers steering borrowers to more expensive loans

HB 2463 - Regulate Mortgage Servicers

• Gives NC Commissioner of Banks regulator authority over mortgage servicers

Health Care and Environmental Justice

HB 2431 - NC Institute of Medicine Study relation to access to health care

HB 2436 - Expand Health Choice/Kid's care

• Includes $1 M to Eliminate Health Disparities
• $43 M to expand &  improve institution-based mental health, developmental disabilities & substance abuse
• $7 M for housing assistance for persons with disabilities.
• $4 M - Farmland Preservation$100 M - Clean Water Management Trust Fund
• $50 M - Land for Tomorrow

HB 2688 - Create a health policy council - killed in House's health committee