May 2020 · Produced by Marketing & Communications

Winston-Salem Wins $30 Million Grant to Transform Cleveland Avenue Homes
City Panel Awards 23 COVID-19 Response Fund Grants
Joines Rescinds Stay-at-Home Order to Align Winston-Salem with State Order
Yard-Waste Collections Reinstated
Collection Changes for Memorial Day Holiday
Input Sought on Transportation Priorities
City Seeking Comment on Draft Housing/Community Development Plan

Mayor Allen Joines speaking at Housing and Urban Development presentation

Winston-Salem Wins $30 Million Grant to Transform Cleveland Avenue Homes

Winston-Salem has been selected to receive a $30 million federal grant to transform the aging Cleveland Avenue Homes public housing neighborhood and the surrounding area under the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grant was co-awarded to the city and the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem. The grant will allow the housing authority to replace the 244 existing apartments in Cleveland Avenue Homes with 406 new units, similar to the transformation of the Happy Hill and Kimberley Park public housing neighborhoods under the HUD’s HOPE VI program that was a predecessor to the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative. READ MORE

City Panel Awards 23 COVID-19 Response Fund Grants

Twenty-three local agencies and other non-profit groups were selected to receive grants from the city’s portion of the COVID-19 Response Fund for Forsyth County. The largest single grant, of $100,000, went to the Forsyth Backpack Program, which provides weekend meals for hungry children & teens. Grants of $75,000 each were approved for Love Out Loud, the School Health Alliance for Forsyth County and Trellis Supportive Care. Grants of $50,000 were awarded to Christ Rescue Temple Church, S.G. Atkins Community Development Corp., Care Net Counseling, Nueva Vida and the Exchange Club for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina. Grants of lesser amounts were approved for 14 other organizations. READ MORE

Joines Rescinds Stay-at-Home Order to Align Winston-Salem with State Order

On April 29 Mayor Allen Joines rescinded his stay-at-home order and its provisions in order to bring the city under the provisions of the statewide order issued by Gov. Roy Cooper. Cooper’s order is scheduled to expire May 8, a day after Joines’ order was scheduled to expire. Placing the city under the statewide order does not change which businesses have been deemed essential or non-essential. Forsyth County has also revised its stay-at home provisions to align with the state timetable. READ MORE

Yard-Waste Collections Reinstated

The city will resume yard-waste collections on Monday, May 4. Collections are being made Mondays through Thursdays in keeping with the regular collection schedule, for those households that have yard carts with current collection stickers. The city suspended collections of yard-waste, brush and bulky items in early April as a precautionary measure to ensure sufficient staffing for garbage collections in the event that a significant number of Sanitation Division employees were unable to work due to COVID-19. However, said City Manager Lee Garrity, "We have been fortunate to only experience minimal staffing disruptions and will be able to move the yard waste personnel back to their normal responsibilities." READ MORE

Collection Changes for Memorial Day Holiday

City offices will be closed Monday, May 25, for the Memorial Day holiday. CityLink 311, the city’s citizen service call center, will not be staffed but non-911 emergency calls will be forwarded to on-call staff with the appropriate department. Requests for routine information or services may be submitted by email, the city website and the CityLink 311 mobile application for processing the next day. All yard-waste cart and recycling collections will be postponed one day. There will be no change in garbage collections. For more information call CityLink 311.

Input Sought on Transportation Priorities

Local transportation planners are in the process of updating a transportation plan for the next 25 years and are holding online meetings Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5 & 6, solicit public input on what should be in the updated plan. The meetings are part of the process for updating the Metropolitan Transportation Plan for the Winston-Salem urban area, which includes Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, and parts of Davie, Davidson and Stokes counties. READ MORE AND LEARN HOW TO PARTICPATE ONLINE

City Seeking Comment on Draft Housing/Community Development Plan

City officials are soliciting public feedback on their draft plan for using federal money to address the housing needs of low- and moderate-income residents, homeless residents and those with disabilities, as well as address the community service and economic development needs of targeted neighborhoods. The document is called the Draft 2020-2021 Consolidated Housing and Community Development Plan . It outlines the amount and types of housing, community services, and economic opportunities needed in Winston-Salem, and how various federal housing programs would be used to address those needs. The draft plan will be available for public review and comment through 5 p.m. Friday, May 8 and is posted at CityofWS.org/170/Annual-Action-Plans. READ MORE

For more information about these stories, or to report a problem or request services, call CityLink at 336-727-8000 or 311 within Winston-Salem city limits.

City of Winston-Salem

Mayor: Allen Joines
City Council: Vivian H. Burke, Mayor Pro Tempore, Northeast Ward; Denise D. Adams, North Ward; Dan Besse, Southwest Ward; Robert C. Clark, West Ward; John C. Larson, South Ward; Jeff MacIntosh, Northwest Ward; Annette Scippio, East Ward; James Taylor, Jr., Southeast Ward
City Manager: Lee Garrity

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