Princeville offers land Housing Authority wants for purchase

Local News

November 24, 2009

W. TERRY SMITH

PRINCEVILLE — The Princeville Housing Authority wants to expand, but it needs 2.43 acres of adjacent land on Greenwood Boulevard owned by the Town of Princeville.

The town Commissioners voted unanimously Monday night to offer the parcel for sale for not less that $18,225 as recorded in the Edgecombe County Tax Office.

However, when asked what was planned, Housing Authority Executive Director Sandra Perry this morning said, "We hadn't gotten that far yet. We're just looking at the land. This is a site for future development."

Perry was not at Monday night's meeting.

The Housing Authority currently has 50 units for additional low to moderate income residents and four units for market rentals.

In other business, the commissioners:

• Adopted and endorsed the Solid Waste Management Plan of 2009 for Edgecombe County.

• Passed a resolution to participate in an energy audit of public buildings and receive assistance in preparing a strategic energy plan with the Upper Coastal Plains Council of Local Governments.

“It doesn’t cost anything,” Mayor Delia Perkins said.

• Learned Police Chief Gary Foxx had received a $4,000 COPS grant to equip an officer to be hired through the COPS program. The police earlier received a $97,000 federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant to hire an officer.

• Learned the Christmas Parade was “on schedule” Linda Worsley said for 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 with four marching bands.

• Listened to county Commissioner Viola Harris sing, “Lord, You Don’t Have to Move My Mountain” as she praised Mayor Perkins and Commissioners Ann Adams and Carolyn Sharpe, who each was defeated in the recent election.

Mayor-elect Priscilla Everette-Oates and council members-elect Calvin Sherrod and Isabelle Purvis-Andrews attended the meeting. They will be sworn at the next meeting, Dec. 21