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• Council OKs DATA computer system deal
  Sep 8, 2010 — The Herald-Sun
  It has overseas offices in Australia, Brazil, Sweden, Germany and India.
• Emphasis on transit mulled for DOT fund
  Sep 7, 2010 — The Herald-Sun
  ...transit network, Durham and Orange officials have counted on the availability of state construction subsidies. Federal aid and a local-option sales-tax surcharge, however, are supposed to underpin the project's financing. Draft comments prepared by Durham's city transportation staff stress that transit should "receive equal consideration" for a share of the mobility fund, and say projects should be scored against a variety of factors that would reward plans such as the Triangle's....
• Commissioners to meet on Tuesday
  Sep 5, 2010 — The Mount Airy News
  Surry, Davie, Stokes and Yadkin counties are applying for transportation assistance funds from the state for 2011. Randy Bledsoe, Elkin City Schools superintendent, will present bids to the commissioners for the next phase of the Elkin High School construction project. The funding request from the school system for phase III of the project is $1.6 million.
• Budget cuts mean vaccines not free for all school-age children
  Aug 30, 2010 — Star-News
  ...vaccines statewide for children not qualifying under the federal program for free shots. "Next year, it'll be totally different. We'll no longer have the transition vaccine the state sent us," Grimsley said. Besides the school entry shots, which include vaccines against chickenpox, measles, mumps and rubella, sixth-graders also have to get a combined booster shot for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. Grimsley said the program change also will affect children's flu shots...
• Federal act lays out schools' guidelines
  Aug 30, 2010 — The Herald-Sun
  No district may remove homeless students from a mainstream school environment simply because they are homeless. School districts must transport a homeless child to the school of origin. McKinney-Vento grants to states are typically doled out to districts in subgrants.
• NCDOT seeks public comment
  Aug 30, 2010 — The Daily News (Jacksonville, N.C.)
  Bev Perdue signed the Mobility Fund into law as part of the state's budget. Use either its "Contact Us" system or try the new Citizen Connect online forum by going to ncdot.newkind.com. Citizens will have the month of October to comment on the report's findings.
• Streets would get bulk of bond money
  Aug 30, 2010 — The Charlotte Observer
  City staff originally budgeted $10 million for housing, but the City Council added $5 million during its budget workshops.
• N.C. school districts to share equally in Race to the Top funds
  Aug 28, 2010 — The Herald-Sun
  The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools expects to hear shortly about how much the system will receive.
• DOT has money for transit
  Aug 27, 2010 — The Daily Southerner
  ...provide taxi vouchers to the elderly and disable." Kinston, Perry pointed out, implemented a taxi voucher program where seniors are distributed on a weekly basis to provide a ride to those in need. The funding for the program in Kinston is divided up by the state DOT, the city and the rider. The state DOT pays half, the city provides a quarter of the costs while the rider provides the other quarter. The taxi providers turn in their collected vouchers on Thursday to the...
• County citizens may see additional taxes
  Aug 26, 2010 — The Reidsville Review
  Since 2000, funding from the United Way has gone down 16 percent and call volumes have seen an increase of 55 percent, Boles said.