Council to eye police cameras
By Rochelle Moore
Published in News on April 2, 2018 5:50 AM
The Goldsboro Police Department has been approved to receive nearly $90,000 in state funding that could lead to every officer receiving a body camera.
The N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety grant, which requires a $89,138 city match, will require approval by the Goldsboro City Council.
The council will consider the proposal during its meeting tonight, at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 214 N. Center St.
The $178,276 cost is planned to provide the department with 96 Getac body-worn cameras as well as docking stations, chargers, trigger boxes for vehicles and storage servers.
The department has been using 35 body cameras for the past year, with officers sharing the technology.
Also during the meeting, the council will review rezoning requests that could lead to a new 80-unit senior apartment complex on Cuyler Best Road and a car wash along Berkeley Boulevard.
Morgan and Associates is seeking council approval to rezone a 6.2-acre property on Cuyler Best Road from an office and institutional district to a residential conditional district, which would limit development to 80 apartments.
Residents of the Glenda's Point subdivision, which is adjacent to the property, recently spoke in opposition of the rezoning during the council's March 19 meeting, citing traffic congestion and other concerns. The residents asked that the rezoning request be delayed until area residents could learn more and be part of the decision-making process.
The Goldsboro Planning Commission, which met on March 26, voted in favor of the rezoning as a recommendation to council.
The council will also review a rezoning request by Berkeley Realty Holdings to allow the addition of a car wash as an allowable use in a general business conditional district, on 0.85 acres at the corner of Berkeley Boulevard and Langston Drive.
The property was rezoned in 2017 from residential and office-residence districts to a general business conditional district with plans for the development of a multi-tenant building. The rezoning request would allow for the development of a 3,500-square-foot building along Berkeley Boulevard, across from Berkeley Mall, with the entrance into the car wash off of Langston Drive.
In other business, the council will consider:
* Appointments to its boards and commissions.
* Selling 1.7 acres on Central Heights Road, near Thoroughfare Road, to Barnew Media for $17,600, with the city and county receiving $8,800 each.
* Rescheduling its June 18 meeting to June 25.
* Rezoning a 0.46-acre property on Graves Drive, near Berkeley Boulevard, from a shopping center to a general business zone.
The council is set to receive an economic development report from the Wayne County Development Alliance during a 5 p.m. work session in the City Hall annex, 200 N. Center St.