Published: Monday, September 5th, 2011 @ 11:33 pm
By: Stan Deatherage   ( More Entries )
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The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners Will Meet to Discuss the County's Business

    The Government of Beaufort County meets every month for at least one general meeting to discuss and act on the county's business. Beaufort County employs the county manager form of government which stipulates that the board of county commissioners allow the county manager to set the agenda, and bring issues before them.

    The Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners will meet to discuss a variety of issues in their general meeting on Tuesday, September 6, 2011. This is the third general meeting post-budget, where the county commissioners, by a vote of 5 to 2, raised your property taxes by 6%.

    In respect to that aforementioned tax raise by 5 of the Beaufort County Commissioners, I will present a resolution that the Beaufort County Commissioners will not raise any tax on its citizens through 2012. How do you think the commissioners will render this vote to keep Beaufort County's taxes static. A copy of that resolution is listed below.

 Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners General Meeting Agenda
         Tuesday, September 6, 2011.
   Beaufort County Administrative Building, Commissioners’ Meeting Room
       121 West Third Street, Washington, North Carolina

5:00 p.m.: Call to Order by Chairman Langley
       Invocation & Pledge of Allegiance
       Consideration of Consent Agenda

5:10 p.m.: Public Comments

5:30 p.m.: George Bright, Food Bank of the Albemarle
         Hunger Action Month

5:40 p.m.: Commissioner Jerry Langley
        Questions for PCS on Possible Expanded Business Operations
          Request Letter of Endorsement for Grant Funding

5:50 p.m.: Bobby Parker, Tax Administrator
        Current Tax Collections

6:00 p.m.: Jim Chrisman, Assistant County Manager
          Authorization and Approval for Updates for Records Retention and Disposal for Tax Administration,
          Veterans Office, Register of Deeds and Sheriff Office

6:15 p.m.: Break

6:45 p.m.: PUBLIC HEARING, Chris Kiricoples, Executive Director, BC Developmental Center (BCDC) and
          Dianna Griffin, Beaufort Area Transit System (BATS)
          9 Presentation and Approval of Rural Operating Assistance Program (ROAP) Application

7:00 p.m.: Jim Chrisman, Assistant County Manager
          PARTF Grant Award – Update on Crisp Landing Boat Ramp

7:10 p.m.: Theresa Porter, Social Services, Income Maintenance Supervisor II
          Presentation / Approval FY2012-14 Work First Program Application

7:25 p.m.: Commissioner Stan Deatherage
          Proposed Resolution No Tax Increase through 2012    (see below)
          Accommodation for Emergency Management Disaster Team

7:40 p.m.: Commissioner Hood Richardson
          Sheriff Department Weapons Inventory
          Homeland Security Training Seminars

7:50 p.m.: County Manager Report’s


Resolution for the Beaufort County Commissioners to Not Raise any Tax through 2012
    Whereas, the Great Recession continues, with verifiable unemployment at 9.2 percent and possibly another 10 percent of America's workforce just not looking for work any longer, and,

    Whereas, excessive taxation, in all forms, places a burden upon Beaufort County's citizen's, and consequently, is a well known major hindrance to job creation in the private sector, and,

    Whereas, its is agreed that Beaufort County, the State of North Carolina and the United States of America will not claw its way out of this Great Recession until the private sector begins to, once again, create jobs, and,

    Whereas, the Beaufort County Commissioners, by a vote of 5 to 2, has already elected to raise property taxes by 6 percent in the 2011 / 2012 budget for the county, therefore,

    Let it be resolved, that the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners will not raise any form of tax upon its citizens through 2012.

Written by Beaufort County Commissioner Stan Deatherage and submitted to the Beaufort County Board of County Commissioners, North Carolina, for passage on September 6, 2011.