The Winston-Salem City Council passed its $530 million budget with no tax increase on Monday, June 18, with a commitment to raise the minimum wage for city workers to $15 by 2021.
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The county commissioners unanimously passed a $426.3 million budget with no property tax increase last week with plans to put a quarter-cent county sales tax on the ballot in November.
With the city voting on its budget on Monday, many nonprofits used last week’s budget hearing for a last minute appeal to the city for funding. Every year, both the
County commissioners heard a preview of the upcoming $433.9 million budget, and requests to be added to it from organizations such as Carter G. Woodson School and Freedom Tree at
Public hearing set on budget for Winston-Salem To the Editor: The city property-tax rate would remain unchanged, city services to residents would
In the aftermath of reports that the Republican-led General Assembly did not appropriate $200,000 proposed by Gov. Roy Cooper for
By Charlene Crowell No one ever said that higher education wouldn’t cost money. Across the country, tuition is steadily rising and
On Tuesday, Gov. Roy Cooper, calling it “small-minded” vetoed the compromise $23 billion budget the Republican-led NC General Assembly passed last week.
Funding for a drug court, an extension for an underutilized bus route and a rate increase for Trans-AID have been
The Winston-Salem City Council heard dozens of nonprofits ask for funding in the city’s $482.2 million budget during a public
