No surprise here. The Chapel Hill Town Council has hiked the property tax rate by 11 percent. As is typically the case with these budget stories, the voice of the people forced to pay the freight is relegated to the last pargraphs of the story, proving that in Chapel Hill, it is virtually impossible to fight city hall.
Several Chapel Hill residents sent e-mail to the town opposing the tax rate increase.
“It will make it very difficult to support a living in Chapel Hill dropping the value of our properties,” husband and wife Anil and Ritu Sethi wrote.
“In this time of fiscal uncertainty, the Chapel Hill mayor and City Council need to reevaluate the expenditures in services and new projects (aquatic center, parks) and eliminate or modify services to reduce city expenditures to maintain the current property tax rate,” another town resident wrote.
Not gonna happen.
