
{"id":2659,"date":"2008-05-23T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/05\/23\/public-hearing-on-the-budget-tuesday-night\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T19:48:37","slug":"public-hearing-on-the-budget-tuesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/05\/23\/public-hearing-on-the-budget-tuesday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hearing on the budget Tuesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen has scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday on the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2008-2009 budget.<br \/>\nThe hearing begins at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall. The agenda is available on the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of Town Manager Steve Stewarts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed $18,476,375 budget is also available on the site at the town government link. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With property-tax revenues growing more slowly and lower sales-tax revenues projected, Stewart is recommending that the town raise property taxes 3.23 cents, putting the total tax rate at 68.60 cents per $100 of assessed value. For the owner of a $200,000 home, the increase would be about $65.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mark Chilton said the budget is very bare bones this year. Stewart is proposing only a few items in his expansion budget \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a $260,000 installment for the Weaver Street reconstruction project, $13,230 for tennis court resurfacing at Wilson Park and $10,500 for dog park fence renovations at Anderson Park.<\/p>\n<p>Given a slowing economy and lower revenues, Chilton said the town is trying to squeeze the budget just to stay on track.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really trying to keep it to just the status quo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, adding that feedback this year has been somewhat quiet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard any backlash,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have heard concerns, but they are more about the total tax picture.<br \/>\nOrange County officials are eyeing an almost nine-cent increase in property taxes and more than two cents in the school district tax.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Kirk Ross<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carrboro Board of Aldermen has scheduled a public hearing for Tuesday on the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2008-2009 budget. The hearing begins at 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall. The agenda is available on the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website. A copy of Town Manager Steve Stewarts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proposed $18,476,375 budget is also available on the site at the town government link.<\/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-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","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=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}