SALISBURY — The Salisbury City Council will hear the city’s annual financial reports for the past year during the upcoming meeting on Tuesday.

The report will come from representatives of the city’s contracted auditing company, Martin Starnes, and will show the city’s financial positions, both income and expenditures, overall and through the various departments and branches of the city government for the past year. 

As part of the state’s required auditing process, auditors are required to point out “financial performance indicators of concern,” or red flags in the financial reports that the municipality would need to outline a plan to address in a letter to the N.C. Department of the State Treasurer. Last year, the city had one indicator of concern around the water and sewer condition of assets, which the auditor who reported to the council said would require “continued investments in assets and infrastructure.”

The upcoming Salisbury City Council meeting will be at 6 p.m at city hall, located at 217 S. Main St. The other agenda items that will be discussed include:

• The council will consider the annexation of an approximately three-acre property located in the 1700 block of Faith Road. The property is located in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction and so already has a city zoning designation. The owners plan to build a single-family residence on the property.
• The council will consider a text amendment to the development ordinances allowing for “rooming and boarding houses” to be built in the Community and Institution district. The amendment was requested by Catawba College, as the college is zoned CI and dormitories fall under the rooming and boarding houses category. The proposed standards in the amendment would allow only for student housing.
• The council will consider an amendment to the development ordinances that would apply lighting regulations to indoor lighting. Currently, regulations surrounding light nuisance and spillage only apply to outdoor lighting. For more information, visit https://www.salisburypost.com/2024/11/13/planning-board-recommends-ordinance-amendment-to-eliminate-interior-nuisance-lighting/.
• The council will receive the 2023-2024 annual report from Downtown Salisbury, Inc.