As we approach the Sept 9 Charlotte City Municipal Elections, REBIC offers 3 important reminders.
Download our VOTER GUIDE and share with everyone who needs to know the ‘why’ for the candidates REBIC supports.
There is no more important agenda item than the upcoming Charlotte City Council Primary. Voting Day is September 9, 2025. Until that time we encourage you to visit the website Vote.MeckNC.gov.
Want to know the locations, hours, and availability of the early voting sites? See this Early Voting Sites PDF with Map.
My Take: As of the close of business yesterday (August 25th) a total of 443 votes had been cast in early voting in the City of Charlotte, who’s population is well over 900,000 people. Do we really want a few hundred folks to determine the future priorities of one of the fastest growing cities in the country? I certainly don’t, especially in an election where special interests, represented by a national union organization, are spending thousands of outside dollars to affect a local election. If we can encourage our friends, neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances, and anyone within our respective spheres of influence to vote, we really can affect the outcome. All Charlotte City voters should desire for our city to be well positioned with leadership that emulates vision, insight, and character. I want Charlotte to be a revered and innovative top ten city, who is with me? Let’s go!
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~~This portion is reproduced from The Charlotte Ledger
The Ledger has helped launch a nonprofit dedicated to reliable, easy-to-access election information; join our webinar with candidates on Tuesday night.
Local elections are important — there’s a key one coming up in about 2 weeks — and I’m happy to tell you today about a new project The Charlotte Ledger is working on to get voters the information they need.
Building on the voter guides we have produced for local elections in the last two years, The Ledger has helped establish a new nonprofit whose mission is to empower local voters to vote smarter.
This new nonprofit, called the Civic Knowledge Initiative, aims to strengthen democracy by making it easy for every citizen to find, understand and act on clear, impartial information about their local government and elected officials.
Locally focused: Having citizens engaged and involved in elections at all levels is an important cornerstone of our democratic society. And while everyone has an opinion about what’s happening at the federal level in Washington, far fewer people tune into what their local elected officials and candidates are doing here, closer to home — even though they make critical decisions on public safety, growth, education, transportation and other important topics that affect our daily lives.
We want to change that. People should be informed and engaged on local issues that affect them. So The Ledger and the separate and independent Civic Knowledge Initiative have teamed up to produce The Election Hub for the city of Charlotte primary election on Sept. 9, and we’ll do the same for all local elections going forward. The Election Hub is an easy-to-read resource with candidate summaries, biographies and questionnaires. Unlike typical media websites, it is easy to navigate and is mercifully free of aggressive and distracting ads, pop-up videos and paywalls. It is free to all and easy to use.
There’s no obvious business model for making civically important information available for free — we don’t want to charge for it or sell ads against it —which is why we think it makes sense to organize The Election Hub under a nonprofit umbrella. The Civic Knowledge Initiative received IRS approval as a 501(c)(3) charity last month, so contributions to it are tax-free. (If you think this initiative is important and would like to support it with a tax-free gift, you are welcome to. If you have feedback, please let us know.)
We think this is an innovative approach to a pressing local problem, and we can draw on modern techniques to spread reliable election information — such as podcasts, social media, videos, events and more.
Join our online webinar Tuesday with city of Charlotte candidates
In that regard, we’re also pleased to invite you to a virtual candidate forum with city of Charlotte primary candidates on Tuesday (Aug. 26) from 6:30-8:30 p.m. You can register for that here. If you can’t make it during that time, register anyway, and we’ll send you a link afterward so you can watch later.
Register for online candidate forum
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Please note the following August CLDSM Updates.
August 2025 3000 Series draft updates
2025 CLDSM UPDATES -DRAFT_Aug Rev
2025 CLDSM UPDATES Detail Sheets -DRAFT_Aug Rev
The website updated request has been made to show the new revisions. This update should be present relatively soon. All the updated details have also been attached to this email for your convenience.
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Helpful Resources Available at Charlotte Development Center Website:
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My Take: If your work is here in Charlotte and you have a few minutes to review the draft updates to the manual, it would be extremely valuable for you to do so. Better language in the manual leads to better outcomes on the ground. Besides, it’s easier and less costly to provide input now than it is to try to later to scramble in reaction to a regulation that may not have made that much sense to begin with. Being proactive means we stay strong and informed.
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