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...
Overnight Bulletin: Commissioners vote 3-2 for 2½-cent property tax hike
A deeply divided board of commissioners voted Tuesday night for a 2½-cent property tax increase, about a 5.33 percent increase – the third consecutive...
ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: County manager prepares four budget options for commissioners for Mon. night...
Alamance County commissioners have been given four options for a revised new budget for 2025-2026 from county manager Heidi York, based on various criteria...
ALAMANCE NEWS EXCLUSIVE: More on the budget from two days of commissioner workshops
Read extensive coverage from 10 hours of county commissioner meetings during budget workshops on Monday and Tuesday, June 9 and 10.
• Discovery of new...
Commissioners appear ready to spend windfall of new revenues in fund balance; still pondering...
A grueling two-day “work session” earlier this week saw no hard-fast agreement arise among Alamance County’s leaders about the final details of the county’s...
