A growing concern that has been expressed to me in the past, and quite a bit more recently, is that the bidding process in Beaufort County Government needs to be replaced by a more transparent process; one that favors the sense of fairness, while projecting a perspective of fiduciary obligation.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 1:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We know our Students are Years Behind in their education. Students' performance is well below average proficiency scores.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 3:08 am
By: Gary Carlton
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Beaufort County Commissioners Meet in a Special Called Meeting to Decide the Tax Rate for 2020 /2021On Monday June, 8, 2020, Beaufort County's Commissioners met to finish the 2020 /2021 budget; make no cuts with a hastily constructed economic recession raging, and retained the .635 per 100 dollars evaluation as the ad valorem tax rate for Beaufort County tax payers.
Published: Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 12:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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On Monday, June 15, 2020, Beaufort County's commissioners were called into action to approve negotiations between the Beaufort County Sheriff and Pitt County Sheriff on relocating inmates to Pitt County, where the rates negotiated were 66% to double what were being paid 18 months earlier.
Published: Thursday, January 13th, 2022 @ 9:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Commissioner Jerry Langley formally initiated the conversation among the Beaufort County Commissioners that a new jail or "Public Safety Complex" (vernacular for Progressives) should be considered and built.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 3:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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For those of us who are normal and have commonsense this" repair" project should cost no more than $200,000.
Published: Saturday, July 13th, 2019 @ 9:01 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Is 'three times in a row a charm' in the tax raising business here in Beaufort County? Nonetheless, its government's majority believes that yet another tax raise in three consecutive years suits its citizens just fine; so charmed we must be.
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 4:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The fiscal year that ended on June 30. 2018 audit was presented. Like all other government audits it reported a glowing success for the commissioners and staff.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 2:57 am
By: Hood Richardson
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Never before in the last two decades, has this 5 term county commissioner, of some estimable intellect on these pertinent matters of the People's business, witnessed commissioners, and their appointed staff take a more flippant, patriarchal attitude toward the welfare of all of our county's citizens
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 4:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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One does not examine Beaufort County Cartel Politics without stumbling head long into ethics.
Published: Monday, June 29th, 2015 @ 10:57 am
By: Hood Richardson
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In what will come to be the most important issue since Beaufort County chose to give away it's public hospital to a for-profit corporation, for a pittance, the proposed building of a new jail has taken a strange turn, and is quickly moving beyond the governmental grasp of the commissioners.
Published: Sunday, September 29th, 2013 @ 1:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The jail situation continues to be a thorn in the side of Beaufort County tax payers. It appears construction of a new jail will cause as much as a 10 percent increase in property taxes.
Published: Thursday, August 29th, 2013 @ 12:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The District Attorney, Seth Edwards, wrote an editorial responding to criticisms I made about the failure of his office to try criminal cases promptly after arrests have been made.
Published: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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Who is the protector of the County money? How do we make sure our County money is spent according to the budget prepared by the Commissioners?
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 @ 11:50 am
By: Hood Richardson
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners meet with their attorney, Neal Yarborough in Closed Session to discuss their possible pending lawsuit with the Beaufort County Board of Education
Published: Thursday, October 1st, 2009 @ 6:48 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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