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The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) is the police department of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, United States, which includes the City of Charlotte.With 1,817 officers and 525 civilian staff as of 2020, covering an area of 438 square miles (1,130 km 2) with a population of 1,000,000+, it is the largest police department between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta, Georgia.
John Montgomery Belk (March 29, 1920 – August 17, 2007) was head of the Belk, Inc. department store chain and member of the Democratic Party, he served as the mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina for four terms (1969–1977).
The Charlotte City Council is the legislative body of the City of Charlotte and forms part of a council–manager system of government. The Council is made up of eleven members and the Mayor, all elected to two-year terms in odd-numbered years. Four Council Members are elected at-large with the other seven representing districts. Though elected ...
The city of Charlotte passed a policy Monday banning some housing providers from refusing to rent to Section 8 voucher holders, becoming the first city in North Carolina to pass such protections ...
One of the areas of policy that Mayor Vi Lyles focuses her efforts on is the expansion of Charlotte because it is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation. [20] To connect the different areas of the city, Lyles alongside the Charlotte Area Transit System, opened a 19-mile light rail transit line. [20]
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Charlotte College, now the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was established [10] and fluoride was added to the water supply. Victor Shaw: 1949–1953: Democratic: Philip Van Every: 1953–1957: Democratic: During Van Every's administration the Charlotte Coliseum and Independence Blvd. were completed. [11] James Saxon Smith: 1957 ...
The city of Charlotte will borrow $1 billion to help pay for extending and rehabilitating water and sewer lines in addition to other projects, but it comes at a cost to ratepayers.