Faced with a multi-million-dollar budget deficit that has led to wholesale shuttering of public schools, pink-slipping hundreds of teachers, slashing funding for libraries and parks, cutting services for wounded and disabled Veterans, and reducing social services across the board, the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners spent the bulk of its Tuesday night meeting approving a […]
The New Year is here and revaluation lurks. If county commissioners are serious about producing a “revenue-neutral” tax rate, as they have indicated is their desire, it would mean cutting the existing tax rate of 0.83 cents per $100 valuation to 0.59 cents, according to analysis of information provided by county staff. “Revenue neutral” meaning […]
Less than a month after surviving a coup to unseat her as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat, is back to playing party politics and stirring up partisan ploys. Roberts earlier this month hatched an idea to send a letter of support and thanks to Congressional members of Mecklenburg’s […]
The kind that makes you laugh until you cry: the vaunted Future of the Library Task Force reports that merging some of the library system’s departments could only save about $290,000 a year, which is just a pinch more than the $225,000 being spent on – wait for it – the task force’s budget. Yes, […]
The governor of New York gets slapped with a hefty fine for accepting free tickets to a World Series game; Mecklenburg County commissioners and Charlotte city councilmembers continue to receive “free” tickets to the annual CIAA basketball tourney, after greasing the skids by doling out $400K a year of your tax dollars to the CIAA. […]
In other news, CMS boosters say CMS is awesome. Really, what did we expect a study of Mecklenburg County parks, commissioned by the county parks and recreation department and conducted by a conservation group that supports parks, to say? The only outcome more certain and preordained than the results of the Trust for Public Land’s […]
Bracing for the looming budget season, library leaders have already begun rolling out dire scenarios that warn of multiple branch closings and layoffs if the county doesn’t come off the hip with at least flat funding. This from a library system that saw its budget reduced by $10 million this year, but still received $21 […]
Jennifer Roberts, a Democrat, managed to retain her seat Monday night as chairman of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, sidestepping a brewing coup that could have stripped her of the title she’s held for the last four years and led, instead, to a bipartisan leadership-sharing role with a former sheriff and Democrat-turned-Republican, Jim Pendergraph, […]
Seems a palace coup is in the works on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, according to this report from WBTV’s Steve Crump that has Democrats squabbling over whether Jennifer Roberts, the top at-large vote getter in November’s election, should remain chairman of the board. Harold Cogdell, the board’s incumbent vice chair who placed third […]
Announces it on Twitter, no less, from the looks of this morning’s tweet from Union County DA John Synder: Excited to announce Marsha Goodenow joining my team of prosecutors! Goodenow, Mecklenburg County’s former top homicide prosecutor, was fired less than a week ago by outgoing DA Peter Gilchrist, who has yet to offer a public […]
