ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Close scrutiny reveals unexpected implications of county’s numbers
Fully half of projected budget shortfall is due to higher salaries, more employees
Alamance County’s commissioners were walloped by some rather imposing numbers this week...
15.5% property tax hike being urged by county officials
Alamance County’s commissioners were urged to move the goalposts this week as they reviewed their traditional approach to taxation at a yearly budget “retreat”...
AMONG BIG TICKET ITEMS: Courthouse expansion, new EMS station, higher salaries, buying diversion center
During the daylong commissioners’ meeting, Rebecca Crawford, the county’s budget director Crawford attributed about $8.4 million of next year’s anticipated deficit to increases in...
Consultant’s pay study translates to raises for most county staff
Alamance County’s commissioners have bestowed mid-year pay raises on most of the county’s staff members in response to a pay study that had keyed...
Request from schools for post-storm funds might’ve been nonstarter for county commissioners
The pounding that Tuesday’s rainstorm inflicted on several area schools had left some of Alamance County’s leaders fully expecting that the local school system...
County continues to express concern over ABSS’ “open-ended” mold contracts
John Paisley, Jr., has pored over more than his share of questionable contracts in his nearly five-decade career as an attorney.
But Paisley insists that...
Audit shows continued growth in county government’s savings
Alamance County’s annual audit is out, and it seems that the county’s leaders managed to keep things on a fairly strong financial footing during...
Commissioners bump school board chairman from county planning board
The chairman of the Alamance-Burlington school board has been bounced from an appointed position that she had held for the better part of two...
School system gets part of $8.5M bailout despite friction with county commissioners
Alamance County’s commissioners rekindled an on-and-off feud with the Alamance-Burlington school system this week as they revisited a plea for a financial lifeline that...
EEOC takes up former county attorney’s age discrimination case; commissioners begin depositions
Their unamicable separation with their former legal counsel some two years ago seems to have come back to haunt the members of Alamance County’s...
