The town of Elon and Elon university are mending relationships and working on more effective communication following a dispute that prompted Elon University to halt payments to the town.
When Brian Graves was appointed fire marshal of the Town of Elon in 2024, fire inspection responsibilities for Elon University and businesses transferred from Alamance County to the town of Elon as a part of the town’s initiative to hire fire inspectors. The county had previously done the inspections at no cost.
The transition revealed code violations the university had not addressed. The dispute that led to the university halting payments to the town centered on the rollout of the new fire inspection process…