On Monday June 25th I will post the budget that I presented to the County Commissioners on last Thursday that they voted down by a 7 to 4 vote. 

The budget that I proposed would have generated another 7.9 million dollars of income for the county, funded all of the art programs, YMCA's, Community Base Organizations and given an additional 2.5 million dollars to the Guilford County School System. 

The budget that I proposed would have done all of the above and only increased the tax rate by 2 cent, rather than the 2.9 cent tax increase that was passed by a 6 to 5 vote.

The questions are why would the County Commissioners increase the tax rate on the citizens of this County more than what is necessary?  Why wouldn't the six Commissioners that passed the budget give serious consideration to the additional income that I presented to them?  They could have called for a recess and asked the County staff to examine the information that I had presented, to determine if the figures were correct or not.  Instead they chose to completely ignored the information that was presented to them and raised the taxes on the citizens by .9 cent without any justifiable reason.  This is approximately 4 million dollars out of your pocket.

For the record, I tried to share this information with several of the Commssioners before the meeting on Thursday night and they did not want to hear any ideas that would have taken them away from the deal that they had already agreed upon with the six Commissioner that have been planning their budget since they met at Lucky 32 on May 24th without including the African American Commissioner in the discussion.

I want you the public to take a look at these figures and give me your opinion.