Beaufort County Commissioners Hear the Purpose of the Manager's Budget | Eastern North Carolina Now

Commissioners Stan Deatherage and Richardson begin the push to return their People's money back to the People for Fiscal 2022 /2023.

    Beaufort County's Commissioners met in a special session, May 16 2022, to continue the budgeting process that eventually leads to the ratification of fiscal budget for 2022 /2023. In that short session of these commissioners, County Manager Brian Alligood explained the economic pitfalls of making ends meet in Beaufort County government's fiscal future. The exogenous effects such as rampant inflation amid limited guidance from Federal Branch economists appeared to leave a pall over a majority of the commissioners to understand all alternatives at hand.

    Beaufort County Commissioners Hood Richardson and Stan Deatherage did offer an alternative to enhance the public's fiscal government's performance: With the Fund Balance (Rainy Day Fund) at a near all time high in relation to the county government's general fund, this is the perfect time to reduce the ad valorem tax rate by exactly 10%. That motion was proffered by Commissioner Deatherage and seconded by Commissioner Richardson. The motion failed 2 to 5.

The first budgetary session of this 2022 /2023 Fiscal Budget: Below.



    Publisher's note: If you are interested in our Archive of the Beaufort County Commissioners' General Meetings can be found here in this aforementioned enhanced format.

    Additionally, if you wish to catch up on some of the most important Beaufort County Commissioners meeting of 2019 through 2022, click here.

poll#146

Should Beaufort County's Commissioners fund more projects, while adding to the county government work force, or, should these servants to the People work to cut wasteful spending, and give the taxpayers of Beaufort County a break on taxes, possibly starting a new purpose for their existence?

  Yes, please spend more; so much needs to be done in Beaufort County, and we need more government employees doing it.

  No, please work to be frugal; more mindful that this is the public's money, and return to taxpayers what is not absolutely needed.

  Why should I pay attention to stuff?

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