Sheriff gets board’s permission to issue more signing bonuses for hard-to-fill positions
Alamance County’s commissioners have unanimously agreed to let the sheriff temporarily resurrect signing bonuses that he originally debuted a year ago to replenish the...
Commissioners act on financial settlement with ABSS over one member’s protest
Alamance County’s board of commissioners has given its imprimatur to a budget amendment that formalizes an earlier pledge to increase the county’s financial contribution...
Commissioners waive permit fees related to rebuilding after Chantal
Alamance County’s commissioners did more than just catch up on old business on Monday when they held a special-called meeting to make up for...
Mebane councilman makes pitch for sales tax referendum
There has yet to be a marketing strategy savvy enough to convince voters in Alamance County to buy into an increase in the local...
Commissioners, school board reach tentative agreement on funding dispute
An impending battle over Alamance County’s allocation to the local school system appeared to end before it even began with a tentative agreement on...
Commissioners approve contracts for courthouse expansion, computer-aided dispatching system
The passage of a new annual budget wasn’t the only item of business that came before Alamance County’s commissioners when they convened its latest...
Commissioners vote, 3-2, for $242M budget, up ABSS allocation, with 2½-cent tax hike
Alamance County’s commissioners have adopted a new budget that adds 2.5 cents (or about 5.3 percent) to the county’s property tax rate and digs...
School board initiates dispute process to challenge county budget’s ABSS allotment as inadequate
Alamance-Burlington school board members have voted, 7-0, to begin the statutory dispute process of challenging the county commissioners’ adoption of the budget that school...
Dispute resolution process used often, but rarely results in litigation
North Carolina’s school funding dispute resolution process had been initiated 40 times during the two decades between the law’s passage in 1997 and 2015...
BREAKING TUES. P.M.: ABSS school board votes to begin legal process to challenge commissioners’...
Alamance-Burlington school board members have voted, 7-0, to begin the statutory dispute process of challenging the county commissioners' adoption of the budget that school...
