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Council increases property taxes, raises salaries for town employees By Kelly Ryan Associate Editor The Chapel Hill Town Council ap proved a property tax hike June 28 as part of its 1993-94 budget, drawing criticism from two council members who think the town should have worked harder to avoid increasing taxes. The budget passed 7-2, with council members Julie Andresen and Joyce Brown voting against the plan. “I think we could have done more to reduce the tax rate if there was going to be a tax increase at all,” Brown said. The budget includes a property tax increase of about 6.2 percent, said Town Manager Cal Horton, who prepared the budget plan. Although the council set the tax rate at 59.1 cents per SIOO property valua tion —less than last year’s 62.125 cents county property revaluations will mean that residents will pay more in taxes than last year. 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The budget will provide two addi tional narcotics investigators for the Chapel Hill Police Department begin ning in October, more street fighting downtown, more police and public works overtime for special events and funding for the new public library on Estes Drive. The council also set aside $324,000 for a water and sewer fund to connect residents in four Chapel Hill neighbor hoods to the county sewer lines. Council members also included sal ary increases for town employees, which will go into effect Sept. 1 instead of July 1 to save money. Lower-paid employ ees will receive 4.75-percent salary in creases, while higher-paid employees will receive 3-percent increases. Andresen said she thought the coun cil provided a handsome retirement package to its employees, adding that she might have voted for the budget if the council had proposed a 2-percent pay hike for higher-level employees. “It’s costing an incredible amount a year. I think we’re spending more than we should for the size of our town.” Mayor Ken Broun said he supported the budget because he thought the town - employee pay hikes and the services the town was going to provide were right on target with the town’s finances. “I think we had the best budget pack age we could have had,” he said. CITY AIDS group again seeks grant to build home By Kelly Ryan Associate Editor More than four months after being denied $280,000t0 build an AIDS group home in Carrboro, the AIDS Service Agency of Orange County reapplied for federal funds in July while still settling differences-with neighbors of the pro posed home. The agency applied for money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to build a six-bed home earlier this year, but were denied the funds in March. Joe Herzenberg, a member of the AIDS Service Agency board, said he thought the proposal would be approved even though it was not dramatically different from the original proposal. HUD probably will notify the agency by the end of September, but Herzenberg said he thought the decision could come a little later. “Like the president, HUD is usually a little late.” The home would be built in a Carrboro residential section at the intersection of Robert Hunt Drive and Greensboro Street. The money the agency requested The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, August 23, 19931 would pay for constructing the house, but the agency will have to continue seeking private funds to pay for the home’s operational costs. Dan McCanless, director of the Hous ing Development Division at HUD’s Greensboro office, said the agency now was competing with the eight South eastern states for funds. The Southeast has a certain amount of money to fund such projects, so the agency will be competing with a wide variety of agencies, not just those con cerned with AIDS. “It may be even more difficult rather than easier,” McCanless said. “They’re not just competing with HIV. 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Andy Sachs, a mediator at the Dis pute Settlement Center, said a planning group, comprised of four neighbors and two agency representatives, still were concerned about landscaping, staffing and the agency’s working relationship with the neighbors. “I think that until the two sides have an opportunity to discuss and resolve issues of concern, the issue won’t cool down,” Sachs said. Lane Sarver, the housing consultant who helped the agency draft both of its applications, said he thought HUD would approve the agency’s proposal. “They showed the kind of commit ment and the ability to mobilize a tre mendous amount of community sup port.” 5
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