Toney, who has worked for the City of Winston-Salem since 2016, accepted a position as town manager for Carrboro, a community about 15 miles southwest of Durham.
Local leaders and community members gathered outside of the highly anticipated new Kaleideum building in downtown Winston-Salem for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
This week the city of Asheville pulled the plug on a long-awaited project to convert a motel into housing for people experiencing homelessness. The move came after the partner organizations managing the project were named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit.
Winston-Salem has been attached to a similar project with the same partners since 2022. And city leaders say that partnership stands, despite repeated delays.
The city of Winston-Salem is finalizing its federal legislative priorities for the next calendar year.
The 2024 Federal Action Plan outlines several issues city officials think should be prioritized by federal legislators. The plan organizes those issues into eight categories, including affordable housing, public safety, and public infrastructure.