THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, July 1, 1994 TAG: 9407010384
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PERRY PARKS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
Pasquotank County Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a $14.6 million budget for 1994-95.
The budget reflects a 6.2 percent increase over last year's spending, but the property tax rate will remain at 72 cents per $100 valuation. The budget also includes a 3 percent cost of living raise for about 180 county employees.
``Our tax base grew the most it's ever grown in one year,'' Commissioner W.C. ``Bill'' Owens said during a brief and benign public hearing on the document in the county courthouse Thursday night.
The growth has helped the county stave off a tax increase, but it also adds the responsibility of expanding the public school system, social services and solid waste control.
The Elizabeth City-Pasquotank County Public Schools will receive $4.55 million, an increase up from 4.25 million last year. In addition, the schools were appropriated more than $1 million to make payments on bonds for school construction and renovation. Solid waste costs will rise by nearly one-third to about $830,000 largely because of a recent doubling of garbage disposal rates to about $52 per ton. Landfill costs also will increase as the county runs its new transfer station that prepares garbage for transport to a regional high-tech landfill in Bertie County. by CNB