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• Commissioners give college project go-ahead
  Sep 8, 2010 — The Mountaineer
  All commissioners expressed concern about the size and cost of the project, but only Commissioner Kevin Ensley voted to oppose the measure. Several commissioners said it made a difference that the college's governing board has come together to unanimously support the project. He said this is the first project he's heard of during hard times where the bid has come in above the architect's estimate.
• EDITORIAL
  Sep 8, 2010 — The Fayetteville Observer
  Bev Perdue already is working on a budget. Education -- the biggest single budget category -- already has been pushed to a point where continued improvement is imperiled. The tax is expected to generate more than $1 billion this year.
• Vote on sales tax becomes red flag for conservatives
  Sep 7, 2010 — News and Record (Greensboro, N.C.)
  ...vote for a tax increase, even to pay for that debt. Arnold said the decision to put the tax increase before voters gives the conservative group a chance to do what such groups do best. "I think they're a group who philosophically oppose such a tax increase, so they should organize and convince people before they got to the polls," Arnold said. "I'm sure that's what they'll do." Barrett Riddleberger is an outspoken member of Conservatives for Guilford County....
• BRIEF
  Sep 6, 2010 — The Fayetteville Observer
  LUMBERTON -- The Robeson County Board of Commissioners is expected to approve a resolution Tuesday formally adopting a quarter-cent sales tax increase. Residents gave commissioners authority to implement the sales tax increase during a special election last month. About 69 percent of voters cast ballots in favor of raising the sales tax from 7.75 cents to 8 cents on the dollar. The Board of Commissioners voted in February to put the sales tax proposal to a vote, vowing then to...
• County dedicates sales-tax revenue
  Sep 5, 2010 — The Chapel Hill News
  ...the Orange County Board of Commissioners unanimously decided Thursday night how to spend it. The commissioners voted to allocate 42.5 percent to economic development, 42.5 percent to schools, and 15 percent to county emergency services and libraries for the first five years. Funds from the additional sales tax would be separated from the county's general fund to make it easier to track how the money is spent, said Frank Clifton, county manager. Commissioner Bernadette Pelissier...
• Potential sales tax revenue splits set
  Sep 4, 2010 — The Herald-Sun
  ...medicine. Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will split 42.5 percent of the tax revenues for repairs and renovations of older schools. The split between the two school systems may not mean that each school system gets exactly half each year. Instead, each school system will submit a list of projects, and the board may decide to fund one project for one school system one year and then fund another project for the other system the next year. That...
• Watauga voters reject sales tax increase
  Sep 1, 2010 — Winston-Salem Journal
  BOONE -- Watauga County voters yesterday rejected a 1/4 -cent sales tax increase after a contentious referendum debate that focused attention on how much debt the county has accumulated. There were 4,414 votes against the sales tax increase to 2,696 votes for it, Elections Supervisor Jane Hodges said. Commissioners had put the sales tax to a vote, they said, in order to raise money for a proposed recreation and aquatic center on the site of the new county high school, as well as...