Bzzzt. Fail.
As we told you last week, the Charlotte city budget does include a big hike in the Uptown special taxing district levies in order to raise money for Center City Partners. True, we are talking about a few blocks of real estate and not the entire city, but this totally invalidates any blanket statement on taxes.
More importantly, city council seems quite content to play along with city staff’s fiction that Charlotte can only scrape together $500K here, $1m. there in order to address our public safety emergency. Meanwhile there sits $12m. in “extra” money from the 277 lands sale that can be put to any purpose council chooses.
This will all be over in another week and absolutely nothing will have changed.
