The county commissioners held a three-hour public hearing Monday night that attracted hundreds of residents to the Alamance County Historic Court House. Almost four dozen residents spoke during the public hearing, while many others couldn’t even get inside the building.
As a part of our package of comprehensive coverage, read:
- Overview of the Monday, June 2 public hearing: https://alamancenews.com/dozens-of-speakers-voice-support-for-abss-libraries-other-spending-priorities-during-3-hour-public-hearing-on-county-budget/
- County manager Heidi York tries to delineate her actual proposed budget (with its proposed 1.59-cent property tax increase) vs. an alternative option she had presented on May 19 (as a contingency in case the commissioners wanted a budget without a tax increase): https://alamancenews.com/county-manager-emphasizes-her-actual-recommendations-vs-a-flat-tax-option/
- Plenty of supporters (inside and outside the building) turned out to advocate “full funding” for the school system: https://alamancenews.com/supporters-want-full-funding-for-abss/
- Also out in force: library supporters who were alarmed by the alternative budget plan the manager had presented on May 19 which included closing three libraries (North Park, Graham, and Mebane): https://alamancenews.com/boosters-oppose-closing-any-libraries/
- Proponents of the Rescue Squad and other nonprofit organizations also register their alarm at the county manager’s proposals to cut their county funding: https://alamancenews.com/rescue-squad-other-nonprofits-also-defended-during-public-hearing/
- The new county tax administrator presents information on the Homestead Exemption that might allow poor seniors to offset their property tax bill: https://alamancenews.com/county-urges-low-income-seniors-to-apply-for-homestead-exemption-to-cut-bite-of-property-taxes/
- County commissioner Ed Priola put forth charts demonstrating a history of the county’s increasing budgets and tax rates, as well as an alternative budget of his own that would keep the tax rate steady: https://alamancenews.com/priola-outlines-trends-proposes-his-own-spending-proposal-for-keeping-current-tax-rate/
- Read the newspaper’s editorial page views on the budget, “The problem with county budget is too much spending, not too little taxing”: https://alamancenews.com/the-problem-with-county-budget-is-too-much-spending-not-too-little-taxing/
- Also be sure to see separate story on county commissioner Pam Thompson’s decision to change her registration from Republican to unaffiliated: https://alamancenews.com/commissioner-pam-thompson-shifts-from-gop-to-unaffiliated/
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