A comprehensive look at commissioners’ seven-hour budget retreat from Monday, January 29, administrator’s recommendations, and commissioner reaction.
- Property tax rate should be increased 6.67 cents, to 49.87 cents per $100 valuation (a 15.5 percent increase), in order to accommodate all of the recommendations: https://alamancenews.com/15-5-property-tax-hike-being-urged-by-county-officials/
- A look at those recommendations: expanding the J.B. Allen, Jr. Court House, establishing an EMS station in Mebane, renovating a building for a 9-1-1 center, buying the diversion center under construction by a private contractor, higher salaries for county employees – and more of them: https://alamancenews.com/among-big-ticket-items-courthouse-expansion-new-ems-station-higher-salaries-buying-diversion-center/
- Behind some of the numbers (an ONLINE EXCLUSIVE): Half of the expected budget shortfall, $8.4 million, is because of recommended higher salaries – a total of 6 percent (3 percent for COLA and 3 percent, average, for merit) – plus hiring more employees, including its own public information officer ($100,000): https://alamancenews.com/online-exclusive-close-scrutiny-reveals-unexpected-implications-of-countys-numbers/
- Our editorial page view on the proposed tax and spending ideas: https://alamancenews.com/heidi-in-wonderland-takes-the-commissioners-down-the-rabbit-hole/
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