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Yancey County Emergency Management Services
Yancey County Emergency Management Services are undergoing extensive expansion and reorganization in response to the federal National Incident Management System designed to standardize and expand preparedness throughout the United States for natural and man-made disasters. The federal program will include integrated plans and structures at state and local levels, including all relevant government and private agencies and organizations. Each state, town and county will assist in developing and then adopt its own part of the plan.
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Broadband Initiative
April 2010 Update
Recognizing that broadband internet access is essential for the future of educational and economic opportunities in Yancey County, the County Commissioners established the Broadband Task Force at their meeting in March 2009 to explore and recommend ways of improving internet access for Yancey County residents. On the recommendation of the Task Force, Yancey County supported the second-round grant application by Country Cablevision for the "Yancey Mitchell Rural Broadband" project, submitted to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the US Department of Agriculture in March of 2010. If approved, this project will be constructed over a three-year period and provide internet access to 97 percent of Yancey and Mitchell Counties with speeds up to 20 MHz and up to 100MHz in the future as needed. This project, if funded, will bring jobs to Yancey County in the short term, and will be a great asset to keeping jobs, bringing in new jobs, and encouraging small businesses for years to come.
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East Yancey Water and Sewer Project
The East Yancey Sewer Project will build a new sewer system and treatment plant in the area east of Burnsville out to Micaville and generally south of Little Crabtree Creek and Highway 19E. Phase I of the project will run from near Glen Raven Mills along Highway 19E to 80 South at the old Taylor Togs plant and up 80 South to Micaville Elementary School and the Hickory Springs plant. Construction on Phase I is expected to begin in 2010 when the final permit is issued by the NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and remaining rights of way are secured. The permit is delayed at DENR as they consider permits for stimulus-funded projects.
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Expansion of the Yancey County Board of Commissioners
On June 8, 2009, the North Carolina legislature passed a bill that will significantly change the way Yancey County is governed. This bill will expand the Yancey County Board of Commissioners from three members to five members serving staggered four- or two-year terms. It also eliminates the separate election for the chair of the board. The bill passed the N.C. House by a wide margin with bipartisan support; it passed the N.C. Senate unanimously.
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