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"Lack of a quorum delays decision on Ell Hotel special use permit.
Decision on Mayor Brab's special use permit for the Ell Hotel
delayed as the Board of Adjustment lacks a quorum; meeting reset for May 7."
www.thewashingtondailynews.com

Why the lack of competence from this committee? AND, you will have to wait a month or more to see the transcript.

Also for inquiring minds: new City manager's contract is for $185,000 through 2028. Info From WDNs.

Commented: Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 @ 11:41 am By: Washingtonian

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Ray did a good job explaining how local political parties work or dont work.
He explained some of the flaws and searched for a root to those things.
Now I wonder if he would care to attempt to explain to us how city govt in eastern NC work, or dont work. Where are the breakdowns? How can they be fixed. What is the job of the elected council? Do they represent us, or dictate to us, hide things from us so that govt is easier to manage? Whose job is it to fix it, other than the election process.
Please explain some of these Depts as shown on city webpages. For example, look at www.washingtonnc.gov
What is the job of all these people? Who is the boss of all thes
people? What is the chain of command? Are they all needed?
At the recent council meeting it was said that when the Planning Dept gets a Project going, they then hire a consultant to run it. Really? Who hires?

Commented: Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 @ 11:38 am By: Washingtonian

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At this recent meeting, Perreault also express anger that Davis had supported a TX Christian college that had offered free service to City employees. He was also angry that Davis had reached out to ECU, BCCC, w/out getting permission from th whole Council.WHY? Cant a membr talk independently w other entities? Perreault says he is afraid employees will feel pressured by Christianity? What? R they so weak they cant control selves? Brabo has lost control of th meetings. She was being led like she had a nose ring. She should be giving Davis equal time, reminding others to control their emotions and think twice b4 speaking. Brabo stopped Davis from speaking on Perreault screaming at the CM, but allowed Perreault to continue his assault on Davis: who was demanding that Davis's home not be given Historical status because he is a sitting council member.

Commented: Monday, April 20th, 2026 @ 1:21 pm By: Washingtonian

There have been and are B&B's in other residential neighborhoods, including East Main Street, West Main Street, and West Second Street. Why is Brabo's on North Market Street being treated any differently, other than Sadler's political vendetta?

Commented: Sunday, April 19th, 2026 @ 12:10 pm By: Bubba

I like to think about Conspiracy theories. I find them entertaining.
So why has JDavis been targeted for erasure by a Washington group?
Is it because he "thinks out loud" and publishes what he's thinking?
Some people test drive their ideas in a public way, never expecting pple to adopt it--just asking them to think about it. Ppl shouldnt b treated like criminals for this.
Or is it because he is a religious man, wearing it on his sleeve?
A religious man is scary to Progressives. The whole thing sets their
hair on fire. They know a religious man takes God as his master, &
never another human. Rightly or wrongly he believes God is on his
side. Progressives know they cant control him. Hence he must b
destroyed. They dont dare let his ideas catch on locally.

To prove a conspiracy theory, I must 1st determine who THEY are. Its
hard to do tht locally bec some pple r a bit of both sides. Its like Kamala's Venn diagram.
Take it or leave it--these r my thoughts. I could b right.I could b wrong.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 12:52 pm By: Washingtonian

The Washington Board of Adjustment met this week to make a decision about Brabo's B&B and zoning. Its decision was to "kick the can down the road." Again.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 9:40 am By: Washingtonian

I believe the Tax Cut Team members themselves, and the Beaufort County Conservative Club recognize and have come to terms with the Perrault treachery. Who knows about the Beaufort County GOP.

It is important to note when mentioning the county GOP just who you are talking about these days. In a normal party structure, you would be talking about the Executive Committee. In Beaufort County you are talking about the non-accountable Victory Committee which has set itself up as the de facto committee. The actual elected Executive Committee members have been relegated to the status of gophers, handymen, and stage props. For that huge reason alone the Beaufort County Republican Party should have absolutely zero credibility with the public. Their unaccounted for, actions in the latest municipal elections very likely cost Republicans one or maybe two seats on the Washington City Council. They took a vibrant grassroots movement they should have supported and managed it into a defeat. It's hard for me to decide if this is ego driven power mad incompetence or something way more ominous.

Commented: Saturday, April 18th, 2026 @ 10:08 am By: Van Zant

Van Zant — The Beaufort County Republican Party has a serious reckoning coming. They helped put Perreault in that seat. Their Victory Committee fingerprints are reportedly all over this. And now the man they campaigned for is voting to strip a conservative council member of his committee assignments, cut off his microphone mid-meeting, and lead the city manager hire that may not have even followed proper procedure. At what point does the party apparatus take responsibility for what they helped build? You don't get to wash your hands of Perreault now. You brung him.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 8:14 pm By: PamlicoPatriot1776

Concerned Taxpayer: I am your audience, and I understand your point.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Reports on violation of the Open Meetings Act in hiring the city manager behind closed doors and not making the official motion in open session is a big concern. While most elected officials attend seminars that instruct them on the Open Meetings Law, they should also have their own attorney for the body present to tell them that th3ey just cannot do it that way.

No one has come forward to contend that this action was taken in open session, so one must asssume that the reports are accurate.

But this is not the first occurrence of such a matter. When the outgoing city council met and voted on the golden parachute for the outgoing city manager, which was at huge expense to the taspayer, there was also no motion made in open session on those matters as required by the open meetings law. Where was the city attorney when that was done? In addition, the law does not allow a lame duck government body after an election and before its new members are sworn in to take personnel actions of that sort. Our new council should be trying to claw back that golden parachute, because it was not done in compliance with NC law. Perhaps the council members who voted to throw away that taxpayer money could be personally liable for it.

Not following the Open Meetings Law and other NC law seems to be a significant problem with our city council. Washington deserves better.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 2:54 pm By: John Steed

Let's call this what it is. Max Perreault didn't just flip on his voters — he is now actively participating in the systematic erasure of a duly elected council member. Removing Davis from two committees in one meeting, using procedural points of order to cut off his microphone, hiring a city manager without a public vote as required by law — and Perreault sits right there and votes yes to every single one of these power plays. The Beaufort County Republican Party knocked on doors for this man. Conservative voters turned out for him. He has repaid every single one of them with betrayal so complete it almost requires admiration for its thoroughness. Benedict Arnold at least had the decency to do it once.

Commented: Friday, April 17th, 2026 @ 1:29 pm By: ConservativeBetrayalNC