The High Point City Council passed a budget Monday night that will raise property taxes and utility rates.
The N&R’s unposted account reports that council member Mike Pugh had missed some budget meetings due to illness. However:
Pugh said he would have proposed cutting city salaries, consolidating the city’s three attorneys, eliminating council members’ health insurance and cutting support to the High Point Market Authority from $1 million to $500,000.
No guarantees that Pugh’s proposed cuts would get the votes, but perhaps they would have started the conversation for cuts elsewhere. No matter now.
