
{"id":10695,"date":"2010-06-01T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T18:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2010-06-01T10:55:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T18:55:19","slug":"hearing-on-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/06\/01\/hearing-on-sales-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on sales tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing today on a possible referendum on a one-quarter-cent sales-tax hike. The hearing will be held during the board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regularly scheduled meeting at the Department of Social Services Office, 113 Mayo St. in Hillsborough. The meeting starts at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The public is asked to comment on a potential Nov. 2 referendum on an additional sales tax in Orange County. In 2007, the General Assembly granted county boards of commissioners the authority to levy, subject to voter approval, an additional one-quarter-cent county sales and use tax. <\/p>\n<p>The additional tax would generate approximately $2.3 million for Orange County on an annual basis. If approved by voters, the tax would take effect on April 1, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing today on a possible referendum on a one-quarter-cent sales-tax hike. The hearing will be held during the board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s regularly scheduled meeting at the Department of Social Services Office, 113 Mayo St. in Hillsborough. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. The public is asked to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10697,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}