
{"id":2834,"date":"2008-06-19T06:51:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:51:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:51:25","slug":"news-brief-chatham-votes-in-new-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/19\/news-brief-chatham-votes-in-new-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Chatham votes in new budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At its last meeting, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners adopted a new budget that reduces the tax increase by 35 percent, with the approved tax rate for 2008-2009 being 65.3 cents per $100 of property appraisal.  <\/p>\n<p>Most actions taken by the commissioners were to reduce the budget, like the decreased funding for a new Community Development Department by $186,207. The new department would coordinate planning, central permitting (including building inspections and fire marshal), sedimentation and erosion control and environmental resources; it would also manage new tasks related to transportation, affordable housing and green building initiatives.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnother source of major savings comes from an agreement to get water at a more favorable rate from the City of Durham, yielding a savings of $722,266 that would have been transferred to a water capital reserve.<\/p>\n<p>Accompanying the decreased spending, though, were a few increased expenditures. The commissioners increased the teachers supplement by $300, a boost from the initial $150 increase, and increased the supplement for teaching assistants, bus drivers and other designated personnel by $100, up from the proposed $50 increase. Because Chatham is required to have the same rate for the West Sanford Fire District as Lee County, that district tax will also increase from 8.6 cents to 10.9 cents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its last meeting, the Chatham County Board of Commissioners adopted a new budget that reduces the tax increase by 35 percent, with the approved tax rate for 2008-2009 being 65.3 cents per $100 of property appraisal. Most actions taken by the commissioners were to reduce the budget, like the decreased funding for a new&#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-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","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=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}