State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, is encouraging North Carolinians to complete their 2020 Census Bureau forms to ensure the state receives its proper share of hundreds of billions of federal dollars.
Federal funding distributions to the state and local governments are critical for everything from education and housing to public works projects and roads.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, announced today that he has confirmed with Tyrrell County Commission Chair Nathan Everett that more than 125 prisoners have been transferred to the Tyrrell Prison Work Farm.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, announced today that Greg C. Gaskins will leave his position as Secretary of the North Carolina Local Government Commission (LGC) and Deputy Treasurer of the State and Local Government Finance Division (SLGFD) on Nov. 30, 2020. Greg has served admirably in these positions since February of 2015. Sharon Edmundson, currently Director of the Fiscal Management Section, will be promoted effective immediately to Deputy Treasurer and Division Director of the SLGFD. She will succeed Gaskins as Secretary of the LGC on Dec. 1, 2020.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, today invited all members of the Council of State (COS) to join him at the Department of State Treasurer (DST) to participate in the regularly scheduled COS meeting. Attendees will be socially distancing and adhering to all federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state Department of Health and Human Services guidelines. Last week, Treasurer Folwell requested that Gov. Roy Cooper hold the July 7 COS meeting at its regular location in the Dobbs building. The request was denied.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, voiced his support for the City Council of Elizabeth City’s decision to resume collections of utility payments in opposition to Executive Order 142. On June 8, the city voted to request Attorney General Josh Stein and Gov. Roy Cooper grant the city a waiver from the order.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, called on Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein to grant waivers from Executive Order 142 for cities that operate citizen-owned utilities like ElectriCities of North Carolina. Without the waivers some of the citizen-owned utilities could face potential bankruptcy.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, expressed appreciation today that the Cooper administration has answered his call by providing $323,504 to Tyrrell County and the Town of Columbia for estimated water and sewer system payments the state would have made had it not closed the Tyrrell Work Farm Prison Unit. He is urging Gov. Roy Cooper to reopen the prison to restore lost jobs and business-related tax revenue.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, has asked the Cooper Administration to pay $304,735.73 representing the estimated water and sewer payments that would have been made to Tyrrell County and the Town of Columbia from the State of North Carolina for the first five months of this year. In September of 2019, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) closed the prison in Tyrrell County, citing staffing shortages of corrections officers and prison personnel.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, and the Local Government Commission (LGC) announced today that starting with the Jan. 7, 2020 meeting, the LGC will provide a call-in number for members of the media to monitor the monthly meetings of the commission. The new service is part of the Department of State Treasurer’s (DST) ongoing transparency initiatives across its divisions.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, today called for Governor Roy Cooper to replace his N.C. Department of Transportation (NCDOT) secretary. NCDOT has spent nearly $7 billion for fiscal year 2019 against revenues of $5 billion for that year. This overspending resulted in NCDOT, not the governor, going to the North Carolina General Assembly (NCGA) and requesting a bailout costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Being treated differently than every other branch of state government and not held to account requires discipline that the leadership at NCDOT has not demonstrated.