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Proposed Greensboro Budget Includes First Property Tax Increase In Over A Decade

Downtown Greensboro. KERI BROWN/WFDD

Greensboro residents haven't seen a property tax increase in more than a decade, but that could soon change.

The new budget proposed by Greensboro City Manager David Parrish calls for a 3-cent tax increase, to just over 66 cents per $100 property valuation.

That translates to roughly $45 more a year for the owner of a home valued at $150,000.

The News and Record reports this would be the first property tax boost in 11 years. 

Parrish says one reason driving the proposed increase is the need to keep up with city infrastructure repairs.

Parrish also points to the impact of continuing cost-of-living pay increases for city employees, and a phased-in wage increase for seasonal workers.

The budget's single largest category is running the city's water and sewer system. One new expense to be added later in the fiscal year is the operation of the Steven Tanger Center For The Performing Arts.

City council will hold a public hearing on the proposed budget at its June 4 meeting.

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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