Friday, May 23, 2025

The Agenda: Meeting this week in area government

Pender County Commissioners meet Tuesday. (Port City Daily/Shea Carver)

SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Every Monday Port City Daily will share upcoming government and community meetings around the tri-county region. If there’s an item of public interest, it will be included, too.

Monday, April 21

Brunswick County Board of Commissioners will meet at 6 p.m. at 30 Government Center Dr. The agenda includes a resolution supporting a $15.5 million funding offer from the Department of Environmental Quality for the design and construction of the Midway to Clemmons RD SE force main transmission project and approval of a $1.1 million budget amendment for WK Dickson’s Southport wastewater study and design contract, raising the total to $4.19 million.

Kure Beach Town Council will hold a budget workshop at 1 p.m. in Council Chambers, 117 Settlers Lane. The agenda includes reviews to the draft budget and other budget related items for FY 25-26.

Kure Beach Town Council will meet at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers, 117 Settlers Lane. The agenda includes: 

  • Public hearing on the FY 25-26 Budget
  • Update from Finance Department discussing on-going projects and financial health
  • Acceptance of Police Chief Bowden’s retirement and appointment of new chief

The New Hanover County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. in the NHC Courthouse, 24 N. Third St. Meetings are livestreamed here. The agenda includes:

  • Public hearing on $22 million in installment financing for capital improvements
  • Animal welfare report first hearing

Tuesday, April 22

Carolina Beach Town Council will meet for a workshop at 9 a.m. in Council Chambers, 1121 N. Lake Park Blvd. The meeting is streamed here and the agenda includes: 

  • A budget presentation, with staff presenting preliminary numbers
  • Board of Adjustment committee member appointment
  • Encroachment agreement for 1810 Canal Dr.

Carolina Beach Board of Adjustment will meet at 6 p.m. in Council Chambers, 1121 N. Lake Park Blvd. The meeting is streamed here and the agenda includes the board reviewing an appeal challenging a staff ruling on development regulations affecting the Carolina Beach Yacht Club.

Pender County Board of Commissioners will meet at 4 p.m. in Pender County Public Assembly Room, 805 S. Walker Street. The meeting is streamed here and the agenda includes:

  • A resolution supporting a moratorium to freeze employment of county employees and discretionary spending
  • Approval sought for a $644,262.25 purchase order to acquire and install E911 radio consoles for the new law enforcement center
  • Multiple appointments to county boards and authorities

Southport Board of Adjustment will meet at 4:30 p.m. at 113 W. Moore St. The agenda includes two special use permit Applications for 204 North Rhett Street and 217 Stuart Avenue, submitted by Wendell Biddle. Recorded meetings are streamed here.

Oak Island Town Council will hold a budget workshop at 9 a.m. at Council Chambers, 4601 E. Oak Island Drive. 

Leland Planning Board will meet at 6 p.m. at 102 Town Hall Dr. The agenda includes legislative and flood prevention ordinance updates.

Wednesday, April 23

The Town of Topsail Beach Planning Board will meet at 10 a.m. The agenda includes training for Planning Board members from Wes MacLeod, Cape Fear Council of Government.

Thursday, April 24

The Town of Surf City will hold an annual resident shred event from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Surf City Municipal Complex, 214 W. Florence Way. 

The UNCW Board of Trustees will hold committee meetings beginning at 11 a.m. in the UNCW Burney Center, 601 S. College Road. 

CFPUA Long Range Planning Committee meets at 3 p.m. in the Jordan Conference Room, 235 Government Center. The agenda includes an update on the Wrightsville Beach consolidation project and factoring in escalation and inflation in capital planning.

Friday, April 25

Surf City Town Council will meet for a council work session from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The meeting can be streamed here, an agenda was not posted by press.

The UNCW Board of Trustees will meet at 9:30 a.m. in the UNCW Burney Center, 601 S. College Road. 

The Pender County Board of Education will hold a Committee of the Whole meeting at 9:30 a.m. in the Dr. Katherine Herring Resource Center, 798 U.S. Highway 117. Meetings are livestreamed here. An agenda was not posted by press. 

Bald Head Island Village Council will have a budget workshop at 10 a.m. at 273 Edward Teach Extension.


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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