It's starting to look a lot like budget season...
Over on her blog, Greensboro City Council member Sandy Carmany describes some requests she received from Downtown Greensboro, including five new police officers for downtown.
While seeing DGI's requests as reasonable, Carmany also added:
But oh, why do I see big dollar signs flashing before my eyes?
And this may not be the year for big-dollar requests. While several council members have expressed an interest in adding more police officers, city staff are already projecting a 4.25-cent tax increase due mainly to the opening of the waste-transfer station, debt service related to the voter-approved 2000 bonds and rising health-insurance costs.
(A whole separate discussion is the likely 2006 bond referendum, which if approved could lead to tax hikes in future years.)
Any tax increase in Greensboro would be compunded by the possibility of tax increases from Guilford County, as my colleague Nate DeGraff wrote earlier this month.
So I'll ask the same question Nate did: Do you want deep spending cuts to avoid tax increases, or would you be willing to accept a tax increase? If so, what would you want your additional tax dollars spent on?
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