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Matthews
Matthews, North Carolina
Official City Record
Official source, last checked Sep 27, 2026- City Council meets
- 2nd and 4th Monday of each month at 7:00 PM
- Meeting location
- Matthews Town Hall, 232 Matthews Station Street, Matthews, NC 28105
- Town Clerk
- Lori Canapinno, Town Clerk · (704) 708-1222 · lcanapinno@matthewsnc.gov · Matthews Town Hall, 232 Matthews Station Street, Matthews, NC 28105
- Agendas posted at
- https://www.matthewsnc.gov/
- Town Manager / Mayor
- Town Manager Melia James (Assistant Town Manager since 2022; appointed permanent Town Manager effective Jan. 1, 2026 via a national search of 110 applicants, succeeding Becky Hawke, who resigned effective June 12, 2025 to become Wilmington's city manager) is the operational executive (Council-Manager government) · (704) 847-4411; Mayor John Higdon (re-elected Nov. 4, 2025 to a third term; resigned his seat on the regional CRTPO transit board in Sept. 2026 in protest of toll-lane policy — an external-board resignation, not a municipal one) presides over the Board of Commissioners
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