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Orange County Likely to Raise Sales Tax by 1/2 Cent
By William Ball
Staff Writer
Orange County might soon face a
half-cent increase in sales tax to help
alleviate continuing budget woes.
The N.C. House passed a bill
Tuesday giving counties the option of
raising their sales tax a half-cent.
The legislation also received prelim
inary approval Tuesday in the state
Senate and will go before a final vote
today.
The half-cents sales tax option comes
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and Surface, a graduate student in
Russian and European studies, will rep
resent the School of Information and
Library Sciences and the College of Arts
and Sciences if they accept their seats.
Stephanie Hunter, a graduate student
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The seat in District 3 could be filled
by first-year graduate student Megan
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administration. District 3 extends across
the schools of Nursing, Dentistry and
Public Health.
One seat in District 5 will remain
vacant after graduate students John
Holmes and Marc Nelson both declined
to accept the seat. The two students had
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right now is with these two photographs.”
Another possible lead could be the
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An artist’s depictions of both men
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in the wake of Gov. Mike Easley’s deci
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The result was an estimated loss of
$400,000 for Orange County, said
Commissioner Moses Carey.
Easley’s decision was based on a
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coming year.
Several Orange County commission
ers said the county will most likely take
tied for die seat.
Districts 14, 17, 20 and 21 are dis
tricted for undergraduate students.
District 14, Granville Towers, could
be represented by Doug Lecompte, a
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District 17 could seat sophomore
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of Fordham Boulevard, north of South
Road and south of Estes except for where
Franklin is north of Estes, in which case
East Franklin Street is the north border.
Senior political science major Rob
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District 21 and was offered the seat.
The final empty seat is in District 20
because sophomore Amy Brooks, who
received one vote, does not live there.
Some candidates elected, however,
expressed their dedication to the posi
tion. Shepherd said, “I look forward to
getting involved in a larger campus
community.”
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advantage of the half-cent sales tax
option.
Commissioner Alice Gordon said the
state’s decision to withhold reimburse
ments is the main cause behind the
county considering the sales tax
increase.
“We don’t want to raise the sales tax,”
Gordon said. “We’re talking about the
well-being of citizens of Orange
County.”
She said planned raises for county
employees and capital improvements
would suffer setbacks as a result of the
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“(Local officials) came begging
down here for the bill to be passed,” he
said.
Hackney said the sales tax will help
counties recoup about two-thirds of the
funds Easley withheld from them.
An earlier proposal that would have
given local governments the ability to
enact a half-cent sales tax failed in the
House 57-60 in July.
The proposal would have raised
about $252 million in revenue for
municipalities.
The proposal failed when
Republicans and some Democrats
banded together in opposition - saying
the bill placed too much of a burden on
N.C. citizens.
Easley still withheld the money to
help account for the state’s nearly $ 1 bil
lion budget shortfall for the last fiscal
year.
Six state counties, along with several
cities and towns, have sued N.C.
Revenue Secretary Norris Tolson, who
is in charge of distributing the funds.
The lawsuit contends that the state
did not keep its promise to allot a cer
tain amount of money to local govern
ments.
Hackney said counties need the
additional funding to protect education,
social services and public transporta
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missed reimbursements.
Carey said the tax increase would go
into effect Dec. 1.
He said the county probably would
not see the relief provided by the tax
revenue until next year.
He said there is a slight possibility
that Orange County might be able to
incur a small gain from the tax after
making up the money retracted earlier
in the year.
He added that the tax is going to
cause problems for those with the lowest
incomes in Orange County because it
tion.
Sen. Virginia Foxx, D-Guilford, said
the legislation would have a major effect
on a large number of North Carolinians.
She said the tax “will hurt the work
ing poor (but) not the poorest” because
food is not taxed under the legislation.
Foxx said that “although the Genera!
Assembly did not levy the tax, it
allowed the opportunity.”
“We don’t need to be raising taxes,”
she said.
She said the public will resent anoth
er tax increase and blame “greedy politi
cians.”
“North Carolina already has the high
est tax rate in the nation,” Foxx said.
“The state seems to be insatiable in
wanting to tax everything.”
But Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange,
said the long-term effects of the sales tax
could be beneficial to counties.
“Over time it could allow local gov
ernments to reduce other tax sources,
such as property taxes,” he said.
But Foxx said the state should have
cut its own budget instead of leaving
counties to fend for themselves.
Lee said that he doubts the sales tax
increase will refund the money local
governments lost but that he believes
something needed to be done.
He said, “We still have to supplement
their budgets.”
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taxes them where they cannot afford it.
“I don’t think anyone is eagerly antic
ipating it,” Carey said.
“We just didn’t have any other alter
native.”
Sen. Elbe Kinnaird, D-Orange, said
legislators were particularly wary of rais
ing any tax now because it is an election
year and raising taxes is a threat to pub
lic approval.
Kinnaird stressed that there are few
options left when facing such economic
hardships as those in many North
Carolina counties, including Orange
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County.
Kinnaird said an option available to
the county is to not enact the tax until
the next fiscal year begins in July 2003.
Orange County Commissioner
Stephen Halkiotis said he favors enact
ing the hike as soon as possible to
acquire needed funds.
Kinnaird said that while Orange
County citizens will not favor the sales
tax increase, she believes it is necessary.
The City Editor can be reached
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at UNC.
To be considered for the National
Register, a site or building must be at
least 50 years old, have some architec
tural, social or religious significance or
be connected to an important person
or event that influenced history.
Two important factors in the
process of deciding what is put on the
list are significance and integrity as
they relate to the history of the area in
question.
Kapp said an interesting feature of
the campus is the various stages of
development that occurred as the
University grew in size over 200 years.
The buildings were built in stages of
history, including pre-Civil War, turn
of the century and World War 11.
And plans for more expansion are
under way as old buildings are
removed or renovated to make room
for a larger student body on campus.
Kapp said, “The beauty of the
Carolina campus is that it evolved over
a number of generations, and we can
see those generations.”
The Features Editor can be reached
at features@unc.edu.
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