The press release from the City of Greensboro on City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba’s recommended budget preview indicates a key piece of information won’t be covered at that press conference.
The budget preview will be from 4 to 4:30 p.m. in the Plaza Level Conference Room at city hall just before the 5:30 p.m. City Council meeting in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber, where Jaiyeoba’s recommended 2023-2024 budget will be presented to the City Council.
According to the press release, one piece of information that won’t be covered at that budget preview is the proposed property tax rate.
The property tax rate is the most important part of the annual budget. While the city budget is amended at nearly every meeting of the City Council, the property tax rate remains the same throughout the year.
According to people privy to such information, the proposed property tax rate increase for the 2023-2024 fiscal year is going to be about 4 cents. If that is in fact correct, that is much better than last year when the recommended budget had an equivalent of a 11.69 cent tax increase. When the City Council balked at that enormous tax increase, through sleight of hand the tax rate was reduced to 8.69 without cutting any spending.
The current City of Greensboro property tax rate is 63.25 cents. Jaiyeoba’s recommended budget last year had a rate of 66.25 cents and a four cent tax increase this year would raise the rate to 67.25 cents.
According to the press release. Jaiyeoba in the presentation of his recommended budget will talk about:
- Compensation increases
- New staff positions
- Continued maintenance and operations
- Proposed user fee increases for water, sewer and solid waste services
- Affordable housing
- Transportation and infrastructure
- Parking operations
- Entertainment and recreation
- Sustainability
More Government, more taxpayer dollars. Nothing new here. Thank those that voted this Council in.
How about a ZERO tax increase? All I see from this socialist moron is: compensation increases, new staff positions, user fee increases and give away housing. Your spending has been out of control long enough.
Sounds like the City Manager should be “fired”. Should hsve been last year, or never hired inbthe first place.
A tax rate increase. On top of historic increases in property valuations. Unbelievable, but not really at this point.
This fella is really bad at 5th grade level math. There shouldn’t be any increase, much less increases of this magnitude in consecutive years. It would also appear that wherever he comes from they don’t consider rate hikes on vital services to be a tax. Well, it is indeed a tax, and an insult as well. Especially to those whom you really believed you were fooling by presenting it in that way! The fact that he won’t present the tax rate during the presentation just further proves he has no interest whatsoever in being transparent, but would rather cover up the actual effect on John Q Taxpayer’s wallet. Let us explain to him what is not sustainable long term… This $#!+ right here!
Any tax rate increase is CRIMINAL and residents should not comply. To increase taxes during an abnormally inflated housing market is punishing those who work hard to become property owners. Those who spend freely and own nothing benefit from the services and amenities while property owners struggle to pay for it all. City employees are making 20 percent less than surrounding municipalities. Adjust and lower the tax rate, so all can afford to live in Greensboro. Raise salaries of City Workers before you have no services to offer.
Just look at the agenda. More goodies for the faithful.
I think that most people detest their government. Politics is a mean and nasty business, peopled by the same.
Government draws people who like to control others. Normal people who just want to live their lives in peace have no urge to rule over other people. It’s the control freaks and the power hungry who join government, so they can live out their psychopathic tendencies.
The GCC simply prefers Black people. It does not matter if the Blacks are incompetent; the manager, city attorney or head of HR. The color of one’s skin is not what determines success. It is interesting that there are Blacks whose skin color is not black or brown. It is only their features that place them in a black group. Shouldn’t this skin color thing be changed to a feature thing? Only those with certain features will be hired and promoted. Isn’t that just as dumb as the skin color thing?
With respect to the two following agenda items:
Proposed user fee increases for water, sewer and solid waste services; and
Sustainability
I hope that someone attending the meeting asks them to reconcile the recent decision to abandon autumn leaf collection with these subjects. First, as to sustainability, what will happen to all the leaves that will not be picked up and recycled? Will the taxpayers be expected to pay new assessments for purchasing the composted leaves which the city crews will no longer be bringing in? How does leaving the leaves to be blown into the streets, empty lots. parks, sewers, etc. advance sustainability goals? Furthermore, as to the user fee increases, since the failure to pick up and recycle the leaves will lead to much more refuse in the sewers, creeks, parks, and empty spaces everywhere, why should taxpayers be charged new fees for a mess that is the direct result of incompetent leadership? If in fact they got rid of leaf collection as some sort of thrift program, they need to reexamine their priorities. In the long run, it will cost them and the city itself, far more than any perceived savings.