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As documents detail Rocky Mount financial crisis, residents meet with city leaders for answers
['Heidi Kirk', 'Wral Eastern North Carolina Reporter']
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Rocky Mount residents met with city leaders on Thursday as they discussed how the town planned to get out of a multimillion-dollar budget crisis.
Other WRAL Top Stories"I want to find out what happened," said Carmen Eddins, who lives in Rocky Mount.
Documents detail the depth of financial crisis in Rocky MountWRAL News on Thursday learned that multiple city leaders were notified of the severity of the financial crisis Rocky Mount was facing more than two years before the review.
In each FPIC, city leaders had 60 days to respond with an outline of improvements that would address the financial concerns.
In 2020, WRAL News reported that city officials bent or broke rules to benefit other city officials, and local taxpayers didn’t know about it because of lax record-keeping.