The Winston-Salem Journal reports:

Winston-Salem’s property-tax rate would increase 1.6 percent and its tradition of backyard trash pickup would end under the budget being proposed by City Manager Lee Garrity.

The increase would add $11.25 a year to the tax bill for a house with a tax value of $150,000.

Garrity’s proposed $362.4 million budget represents a 6 percent decrease from the current year’s budget.

Comments beneath the article are warmed up and ready to go.