Tax educator volunteers needed
The Board of County Commissioners is seeking volunteers to serve on the Orange County Local Revenue Options Education Advisory Committee for the May 2008 tax referendum.
In this year’s state budget, the Legislature gave counties the option of a 0.4 percent land transfer tax or a quarter-cent sales tax increase to compensate for money taken away from counties in a deal to make the state pay for Medicaid.
The 20-member advisory committee will provide the public with information regarding the tax options by developing educational materials and planning informational meetings.
Interested Orange County residents can apply online at www.co.orange.nc.us or request an application by calling 245-2125.
School capital investment meeting
The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday) regarding the county manager’s recommended 2008-18 Capital Investment Plan for county and school projects. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center on Homestead Road.
Staff will present the major components of the 10-year plan prior to public comment, after which staff will respond to citizen and commissioner comments and questions.
Copies of the county’s capital plan and the schools’ identified needs are available online at www.co.orange.nc.us and at the County Budget Office and the clerk to the board’s office on South Cameron Street in Hillsborough.
Community members are also invited to submit written comments and questions regarding the county’s long-range capital plan by emailing the county budget director at dcoffey@co.orange.nc.us or the clerk to the board of commissioners at dbaker@co.orange.nc.us. Comments and questions can also be mailed to the Orange County Board of County Commissioners, P.O. Box 8181, Hillsborough, NC, 27278.
Board says no election recount
The Orange County Board of Elections announced on Tuesday that they would not conduct a recount of ballots cast in the Chapel Hill Town Council election.
Incumbent Cam Hill had requested the recount. Hill trailed candidate Matt Czajkowski by 60 votes, with 13.46 percent of the vote, compared with Czajkowski’s 13.74 percent.
Czajkowski will join incumbents Sally Greene, Bill Strom and Jim Ward who were re-elected to the council.
Oak Avenue gets speed table
Carrboro Public works crews installed a speed table Tuesday on the curve near the Weaver Street end of Oak Avenue.
The new table, along with added police enforcement, is aimed at preventing speeding along the street, which has become a popular cut-through between North Greensboro Street and Weaver Street.
Residents along the narrow street had petitioned the town to do something to reduce the traffic and speeds. Further work is being considered to narrow the intersection at North Greensboro Street.