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Read. Follow. Verify.North Carolina appropriates $8 million for Fayetteville area economic development, emergency dispatch, and community projects
Last action · April 8, 2025: Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action)Sponsors: Mike Colvin and 6 others
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What This Bill Would Do
North Carolina appropriates $5,000,000 in for the 2025-2026 to the City of Fayetteville to establish an Innovation District, along with funding for emergency dispatch consolidation, community center repairs, fire stations, and park maintenance, effective July 1, 2025.
Residents and local institutions in Cumberland County receive state funding directed toward regional economic growth, emergency dispatch consolidation, fire station support, and park improvements.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
City of Fayetteville
Receives directed grants to establish an Innovation District, consolidate dispatch services, support fire stations, and develop park trails.
Cumberland County
Participates in the consolidation of the 911 Emergency Dispatch Center and is designated as a tier one county.
Hollywood Heights Community Club's Community Center
Receives a directed grant for facility repairs and maintenance.
Key Facts
- Appropriates $5,000,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the Office of State Budget and Management for a directed grant to the City of Fayetteville to establish an Innovation District.
- Appropriates $2,500,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to consolidate the City's and Cumberland County's 911 Emergency Dispatch Center.
- Appropriates $25,000 in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the Hollywood Heights Community Club's Community Center for facility repairs and maintenance.
- Appropriates $400,000 in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to support Fayetteville Lake Rim Fire Station, Fayetteville Fire Station 3, Fayetteville Fire Station 15, and Fayetteville Fire Station 14.
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- Appropriates $100,000 in nonrecurring funds for each year of the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to the City of Fayetteville for maintenance and trail development at Lake Rim Park.
- Sets an effective date of July 1, 2025, for the act.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
3 actions- Apr 8, 2025HouseRef to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
- Apr 8, 2025HousePassed 1st Reading
- Apr 7, 2025HouseIntroducedFiled
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance60How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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