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John Valley, Report what you know about corruption to tipline@ncauditor.net Name names!
Make it easy on yourself, send them some of the things that you and others have written here. If you call them, they will actually call you back. Dont hesitate. I didnt. Let's make the sheer number of reports overwhelming.
Commented: Sunday, March 9th, 2025 @ 8:56 pm
By: Washingtonian
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One of the most, if not the most, important and expensive crops in Beaufort County is the crop of children. It takes as much time to mature such a crop as it does a fast-growing forest, and it requires constant care. A 2021 analysis by LendingTree ranked North Carolina as the 44th most expensive state to raise a child, with an annual cost of $16,444, or $295,000 over the span of 18 years. The fraud, waste and abuse of our taxpayer dollars by the current Superintendent, School Board, and County Commissioners are failing our children. This has a direct impact on many other aspects of life in our county. An uneducated, or undereducated, population does not provide businesses with the workforce required to be successful. It does not attract outside investment or bring new opportunities to the county. Unfortunately, many of our best educated youth do not stay at home after they grow up. Many of them relocate to distant cities or even leave our great State. As a matter of fact, we are “exporting” our children, our most valuable commodity, leaving our county which paid to raise them with no return in wealth for their loss. This is irresponsible, unsustainable and must be corrected if we don’t want to become a bedroom community for retired Yankees and our citizens relegated to low paying jobs to cater to these outsiders.
Commented: Saturday, March 8th, 2025 @ 11:21 am
By: John Heermann
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The "Western Expansion" of Beaufort County is about control (Imminent Domain) and money, I don't care what any politician from either side says.
The damn Yankees coming down here to establish their hook-nosed "Retirement Communities" is what got all of this started. Now, because THAT plan is burning like a turd in a paper grocery bag, let's just tax the living hell out of the people of Beaufort County and blame it on Trump tax cuts?!?! This is dumber than "South Park". You can't make this crap up! I would love to see DOGE investigate Beaufort County and every government position within it. That would be an interesting read.
Commented: Friday, March 7th, 2025 @ 11:58 am
By: John Valley
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Concerned Taxpayer: As a conservative county commissioner for 27 years, governing here in Beaufort County to the best of my ability to that level I am allowed, I have often been surrounded by an inescapable level of incompetence; however, currently that level of incompetence is at a all time high, here in my 27 years of serving the good people of Beaufort County, and as I am well entrenched in the Conservative minority, I powerless to stop it.
Good people of Beaufort County, please elect me, nay, all of us, more competent, smarter commissioners to govern with.
Commented: Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 @ 9:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Little Bobbie is what they call a limosine liberal. There are lots of working class people and those on fixed incomes who are struggling to make ends meet, especially after Biden's climate crazy energy policies fueled inflation throughout the economy. Bobbie cares nothing for those people.
We have commissioners who are spendthrifts and that is not good for the taxpayers. The fiasco over that 4 acres that the school superintendant was so utterly incompetent that he did not know the county did not own it, is a case in point.
Commented: Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 @ 7:27 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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I have made plenty of money on the stock market during the Biden Administration, so I declare: I am fine with Beaufort County raising my taxes on my one house so the children can have a new school.
Most of this building is paid for by free money anyway.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 7:10 pm
By: Big Bob 2.0
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Mr. Bonney asked the right questions.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 6:49 pm
By: Buzz Cayton
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I just got my tax reappraisal from Beaufort County government, and if there is a drop in students, why are they raising my taxes for a school that is not needed?
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 6:19 pm
By: William Bonney
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Van Zant: The problem with the Center-Left Coalition is that they have already raised taxes with their wasteful spending over the last 12 months, which is somewhat reminiscent of the last number of years.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 1:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I got my property revaluation last week. Whooo! I can't see the rate being lowered enough to avoid a huge tax increase. I think I've about figured out that somebody is getting free money from me.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 11:24 am
By: Van Zant
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What is it with you so-called conservatives hating on education?
The most important issue in America today is that every person, whether a citizen or not, has the opportunity to a perfect public education, and the chance to attend the college or university that they are capable of attending. New School Buildings make for better students, no matter what the cost to whomever!
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 11:18 am
By: Big Bob 2.0
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Stan: Yeah buddy!
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 10:44 am
By: Van Zant
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But Van Zant!
It's Free Money! However, you know what, Van Zant: I have had two long pissed off phone calls today with folks angry about their property revaluations, and what I discerned from those calls is that they are not overly concerned about using huge amounts of the county treasury to chase down FREE MONEY. Believe it or not, it is usually a good thing when the voting public wakes up enough to get angry about an issue that is a real issue.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 10:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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While the present management diddles with lights for the soccer fields and monolith buildings to consolidate schools for less individual help and more discipline problems, what is being done for our under-served students? The ones with 40% to 47% at home with no daddy. The ones that are now four years behind since Covid. I see the foo-foo about buildings but how about this huge segment of children that will drop out as soon as they can? Then back on the street. Learning how to work the system for welfare and missing a life that could have been. What is the plan for this group? Never herd it mentioned at a school board meeting.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 9:17 am
By: Buzz Cayton
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I think that's $10 million 500 thousand so far.
I'm really getting the impression that not much effort is being put into addressing county population trends and enrollment choices, and too much effort is being put into procuring education lottery funds for ill thought-out building projects for the consolidation of schools.
Commented: Monday, March 3rd, 2025 @ 9:32 am
By: Van Zant
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I reckon these numbers express the purpose of a new school taking the place of two fully functioning schools to build a state-of-the-art school: at $383.00 per square foot; on the lowest point of the land; because "Free Money" was available, which only cost the Beaufort County taxpayers $10,500.00 ... so far.
Commented: Sunday, March 2nd, 2025 @ 7:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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