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Forum attendance

What's behind this page: The Forum is hosted weekly at the West Charlotte Recreation Center, a public facility operated by the Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Department. Since July 2007, the Forum has provided to Center officials as a courtesy an estimate of attendance at Forum meetings. Recreation Center officials use this data to document use of the building.

Forum attendance figures are therefore part of the public record. This page merely makes that information more readily available to the public at large.  To make the page more useful to Internet searches and the reading public, a short note about speakers at each meeting will be added to the attendance number.

This list may be updated weekly, or as infrequently as monthly.

 

2010
Date	Attending	Speaker
4/6
3/30		CMS Supt. Peter Gorman
3/23
3/16		Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx
3/9	27	Al Austin, McCrorey Branch YMCA
3/2	42	Police Chief Rodney Monroe
2/23	44	Members of the Mecklenburg delegation to the N.C. Legislature
2/16	31	Watched Reggie Bullock's Internet video, "A War For Your Soul"
2/9	30	B.B. DeLaine on Brown, the sit-ins, CMS desegregation and the ongoing fight against all discrimination
2/2	47	Elected officials from school board, City Council, County Commissioners and N.C. House
1/26	24	Open Forum which developed questions to be addressed by N.C. legislators at a future meeting
1/19	27	Alvin Wallace, Youth Empowered to Bring Change
1/12	36	Annual Forum Party
1/5	31	Sharon Wright, RISE gang prevention and career education program at Garinger High
2009
Date	Attending	Speaker
12/29		No Forum
12/22		No Forum.
12/15	27	Vincent King, First Tee; Tayuanee Dewberry, Right Moves for Youth; Jeremiah Hopes, Center for Hopes
12/8	31	Elijah Watson, Striving Together Achieving Real Solutions; Derrick Long, Police Activities League
12/1	22	Brian Willis, president-elect, 100 Black Men of Greater Charlotte, Inc.
11/24	25	Rev. Ricky Woods, pastor of First Baptist West and chair of its Community Services Association
11/17	28	Lawrence Tolliver for the Charlotte chapter of National Black Child Development Institute
11/10	25	Cathy Sheafor, Charlotte Community School for Girls
11/3		Election day. No Meeting. (Site is used as a polling place.)
10/27	28	Charlotte City Council candidates in Districts 6, 7
10/20	39	Charlotte mayoral candidates Anthony Foxx and John Lassiter
10/13	32	Charlotte City Council at-large candidates
10/6	22	CMS school board candidates from District 6
9/29	49	U.S. Rep. Mel Watt, 11th District
9/22	41	CMS school board candidates from District 3
9/15		City Primary Election. No Meeting. (Site is used as a polling place.)
9/8	37	CMS school board candidates from District 1, 2
9/1	27	Charlotte GOP mayoral candidates Martin Davis and John Lassiter
8/25	36	City Council District 2, District 5 and some At-Large Democrats unable to be at Aug. 11 Forum
8/18	37	City Council At-Large Republican candidates
8/11	30	City Council At-Large Democratic candidates
8/4	50	CMS Supt. Peter Gorman
7/28	11	Visit to Harambee! hour at Freedom School, Johnson C. Smith University
7/21	39	Curtis Carroll, CMS Area Superintendent for the Achievement Zone
7/14	17	Open Forum
7/7	34	Roslyn Jacobs and Kathy Ridge, Mecklenburg Citizens for Public Education: local, U.S. education trends
6/30	31	Ken Simmons on education of children in CMS, from a black educator's perspective
6/23	32	Dr. Vernon M. Herron, practicing genealogist, on persons and places of interest discovered locally
6/16	17	Open Forum
6/9	39	Dr. Ronald L. Carter, president, J.C. Smith University
6/2	43	Civil rights attorney Julius Chambers
5/26	24	Mary Nell McPherson for Freedom Schools
5/19	17	Winona Chestnut for Fighting Back, Jennifer DeRue for City Economic Development
5/12	12	Eunice Dudley, CFO of Dudley Products (Power outage forced move to Ivory Baker Center)
5/5	42	County Manager Harry Jones
4/28	26	MIddle School Matters: Claire Tate and Kate Shem, POST; Dena Paulding, YMCA University City
4/21	24	Dr. Trasha Black & Henry Black, Genesis Project; Rhonda Blackmon, Joy Within Enrichment Center
4/14	23	Terry Ellington, Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium; Trish Hobson, Emergency Men's Shelter
4/7	42	Molly Griffin, chairperson, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
3/31	34	Allegra Westbrooks, Magnolia Pickens and other women first to break racial barriers in Charlotte
3/24	33	Mary Wilson, Department of Social Services; Carrie Gibson, project director of "Achieve Together"
3/17	29	Women who broke barriers: Sarah Coleman, Thereasea Elder, Anna Hood
3/10	26	Fannie Flono, Charlotte Observer editorial writer
3/3		No meeting due to icy roads
2/24	23	Charles Woodyard, CEO, Charlotte Housing Authority
2/17	20	Katie Oates on growing food in North Tryon neighborhoods
2/10	24	Ken Koontz, WENS-TV, on inauguration coverage from Washington D.C.
2/3	21	Robert Dawkins, Democracy N.C. on campaign finance reform
1/27	22	John Crawford, Rev. Marty McCarthy on Regents School
1/20	8	Eric Guckian, Executive Director, New Leaders for New Schools
1/13	40	James Ross, recently appointed District 3 school board member
1/6	26	LaWana Mayfield, Grassroots Leadership Mecklenburg Justice Project
2008
Date	Attending	Speaker
12/30		No meeting
12/23		No meeting
12/16	57	Christmas Party
12/9	17	Rev. Melvin Whitley, Stop the Bullet Coalition
12/2	31	Pam Jefsen, CEO of American Red Cross Carolinas Chapter
11/25		No Forum: Thanksgiving Week
11/18	16	Hospice Ex. VP Pam Barrett
11/11	21	Election recap; Martha Gamble Hall
11/4		No Forum: Election Day
10/28	31	NC Senate, Bonds
10/21	19	District Court Judges
10/14	37	NC House, 9th District House
10/7	30	County commission at-large candidates
9/30	48	Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue
9/23	26	Parent University Sue Gorman
9/16	33	Supt. Peter Gorman
9/9	19	Saundra Scales, First Legacy Credit Union; Nancy Stroud, Anita Stroud Foundation
9/2	24	SwannFellowship
8/26	28	New city, county officials: DSS Director Mary Wilson; Assistant City Manager Eric Campbelll; Chief Information Officer Jeffrey Stovall; CATS CEO Keith Parker; presented by Community Relations Committee Director Willie Ratchford; City Manager Curt Walton attended and spoke.
8/19	24	Nutrition Coalition Marilyn Marks Society of St. Andrew Beverly Howard Loaves & Fishes Ron Ahlert Community Culinary School of Charlotte Sibyl Durant Friendship Trays Lucy Bush Carter Friendship Trays
8/12	21	Census 2010 Laura McClettie
8/5	24	CMS magnets: Vilma Leake, Tom Tate, Robbie Kale
7/29	14	United Family Services housing counseling
7/22	46	Police Chief Rodney Monroe
7/15	25	Kevin Vinson, YMCA
7/8	33	Harry Jones, county manager
7/1	20	Ahmad Daniels
6/24	24	Robert Dawkins, Democracy South
6/17	20	No speaker
6/10	25	Joel Ford, Mecklenburg Democratic Party
6/3	62	Supt. Peter Gorman
5/27	22	Marlon Smith, Success By Choice
5/20	23	Ulysses Ford
5/13	20	Alvin Curry
5/6		No meeting: Primary election
4/29	24	9th District Congress
4/22	30	District Court judges
4/15	36	Nathaniel Cooper, Trista Allen, Harold Cogdell
4/8	38	Edy Brotherton, Nick Mackey, Drew Saunders
4/1	36	Mary Richardson, Kelly Alexander, Lloyd Scher
3/25	30	Commissioner District 2 Democratic primary
3/18	21	Commissioner Democratic primary
3/11	23	Toni Tupponce
3/4	27	Colette Jeffries, CMS afterschool programs
2/26	39	West Charlotte High School Gospel Choir
2/19	28	Ken Koontz
2/12	32	Beatrice Thompson
2/5	34	Generation Engage
1/29	38	Malcolm Graham, Vi Lyles, CM3A
1/22	15	Jim Garges, Park and Recreation
1/15	34	Kendrick Gholston, James Matthews, Middle School Matters
1/8	33	Ralph Taylor, Aretha Blake
2007
Date	Attending	Speaker
12/18	48	Christmas Party
12/11	24	Mixed Income Housing Coalition
12/4	28	Nick Mackey
11/27	16	No speaker
11/20	21	League of Women Voters on school funding
11/13	31	Westside Episcopal School
11/6		No meeting: Election Day
10/30	23	Discussion of 11-6 election
10/23	26	At-large City Council
10/16	32	At-large school board
10/9	29	Pat McCrory
10/2	25	Beverly Earle
9/25	22	Dennis Rash
9/18	27	Debra Campbell
9/11		No meeting: Primary election
9/4	17	No speaker
8/28	32	Transit tax repeal advocate Don Reid
8/21	34	City Manager Curt Walton
8/14	17	No speaker
8/7	12	No speaker
7/31	NA	Yolanda Harris
7/24	38	Supt. Peter Gorman
7/17	21	No speaker
7/10	31	City Council members James Mitchell, Michael Barnes
7/3		No meeting