Randolph County Commissioners recently discussed four resolutions, two of which had to do with counties’ increasing Medicare burden. One was support for the General Assembly to take action to reduce that burden. Good luck with that one:
…..the state doesn’t seem motivated to take away this particular burden to counties. That’s why commissioners supported the second resolution calling for permission from the state to allow Randolph County to assess an additional half-cent sales tax with the revenue going to pay for schools.
Great. Then the commissioners refused to support a local option real estate transfer tax, not on principle, but because they didn’t think that residents would go along with such a tax.
There was a ray of hope offered up as the commissioners discussed the proposed statewide school bond referendum:
Although the measure has the support of county commissions and the North Carolina School Boards Association, commissioners speculated the chances of passage are slim among a bond-weary populous.
That’s certainly an optimistic point of view. But the guys down in Randolph voted to support the bond referendum anyway. But was it on principle?
