Kinnaird, Eleanor: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)
1 photograph in the Society's People A-O binder: Candid with election campaign poster.
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Gist served 32 years on Carrboro's governing board, until she lost her seat in the 2021 municipal election. The council honored her that December for more than three decades of service, and she said she had worked to make everyone who came to Carrboro feel the same sense of place and home she had found there.
Source: Chapelboro: Carrboro Town Council Swears In New Mayor, Council Members
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1 photograph in the Society's People A-O binder: Candid with election campaign poster.
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Robin Lackey administered the oath of office to alderman-elect Jacquelyn Gist at the Board of Aldermen meeting of December 5, 1989. The board had approved the abstract of votes cast at the November 7, 1989 election earlier in the same meeting, at which Eleanor Kinnaird was also sworn in as mayor.
The Board of Aldermen unanimously amended the town's personnel ordinance to add sexual orientation to the characteristics protected in its merit principle and equal employment opportunity policy. On November 13, 1990 the Board had written a sexual orientation nondiscrimination clause into a planning grant agreement with the City of Durham and asked for the code amendment to be scheduled.
People: Jacquelyn Gist
The Board voted unanimously to amend the Town Code so that statements of domestic partnership could be filed with the Town Clerk, set the effective date at October 11, 1994, added a $40 registration fee, and extended the financial disclosure required of elected officials to cover their domestic partners. The Board took no action on a third proposal to extend health insurance benefits to domestic partners of town employees.
People: Mike Nelson · Jacquelyn Gist · Ellie Kinnaird
Setting town employee health insurance for fiscal 1995-96, the Board of Aldermen voted that the town would bear any expense of adding coverage for domestic partners to its Kaiser plan, after asking staff on May 23 to find out why the insurer Healthsource did not offer such coverage. The vote was six to one, with Michael Nelson opposed.
People: Mike Nelson · Jacquelyn Gist · Ellie Kinnaird
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Resolution No. 123/2005-06, making it police policy not to arrest or take into custody anyone solely because they have or may have committed a civil immigration violation. The board had asked the town attorney to research the question on April 18, 2006.
People: Mark Chilton · Jacquelyn Gist · Randee Haven-O'Donnell · Joal Hall Broun
Lydia Lavelle, who ran unopposed for mayor in the fall 2013 election, was sworn in on December 3, 2013 as North Carolina's first openly lesbian mayor. Aldermen Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade and Jacquelyn Gist were sworn in for new terms at the same meeting.
People: Lydia Lavelle · Jacquelyn Gist · Randee Haven-O'Donnell · Sammy Slade
Six weeks after the state's moratorium on local employment and public accommodation ordinances expired on December 1, 2020, the Council unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 10/20-21, adding to Chapter 8 of the Town Code a ban on discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation that covers sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. The ordinance took effect on adoption and cited the town's March 26, 2016 pledge to seek such protections.
People: Lydia Lavelle · Jacquelyn Gist · Randee Haven-O'Donnell · Sammy Slade · Barbara Foushee
The Town of Carrboro unveiled its second truth plaque at the former freedmen's school site on North Merritt Mill Road, next to St. Paul AME Church. The text reads that Green Cordal and Benjamin Craig, freed from bondage, purchased this land for a Freedman School and church, and that with funds from the Society of Friends they built a schoolhouse that served hundreds of free Black children and adults.
People: Green Cordal · Benjamin Craig · Jacquelyn Gist
Gist, who lost her seat in the 2021 municipal election, was honored by the council for more than three decades of service. Kept away by COVID-19 concerns, she sent a recorded statement saying she had spent 32 years working so that everyone who came to Carrboro would feel the same sense of place and home she had found there.
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