Sales tax update
The Guilford County delegation to the General Assembly will see a resolution in favor of a one-cent sales tax after all.
Even though they said earlier this week that it didn't stand a chance.
And while a few commissioners said themselves that the resolution would die, there was enough support to get it through.
"I’m well aware that the citizens that voted did not approve the quarter cent sales tax," said Kay Cashion, vice-chairwoman of the Board of Commissioners, "and I heard that many didn’t understand what the sales tax was about."
This time, Commissioner Billy Yow and the board wants to push a full penny sales tax in the short legislative session of the General Assembly. It would pay for school construction debt and help knock back the property tax rate.
It's likely not to pass, but Commissioner Melvin "Skip" Alston and Carolyn Coleman took the chance to stump before giving their nay votes.
"What part of 'no' don't you understand," Alston said to Yow, "The 'N' or the 'O'?"
Yow and others said that the voters may need a better explanation of what the tax would do. And if that penny sales tax doesn't get past the General Assembly, Guilford County residents can expect to see the quarter-cent tax again on the ballot in November, several commissioners said.