The City Council decided this afternoon to put Southern Durham Development's utility extension on its Feb. 20 agenda.

City Attorney Patrick Baker informed Southern Durham attorney Cal Cunningham of the decision after a closed session with the council.

With a victory in court behind it, Southern Durham Development is pressing for a hookup to city water and sewer lines for its 751 South subdivision site.

In a Tuesday letter to City Attorney Patrick Baker, Cal Cunningham, an attorney for Southern Durham Development, requested that the City Council take up and vote on a utility extension agreement "at the next available session."

"It is Southern Durham's expectation that the Application will be brought to a vote within thirty (30) days," Cunningham wrote.

On the eve of the election runoff, Secretary of State Elaine Marshall went stumping for votes at tonight's state NAACP rally.

Marshall, one of two candidates competing to be the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, stayed for most of tonight's rally as the Wake school board majority was excoriated for eliminating the diversity policy.

UPDATE

Marshall easily won the runoff Tuesday.