Fayetteville City Manager Douglas Hewett has proposed a new budget for the city, and it includes a hike in property taxes — as much as to 56.95 cents per $100 property evaluation, a 7-cent increase.
Ben Sessoms | Government Accountability Reporter
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Fayetteville city manager proposes budget that includes hikes in property tax, trash fees
Fayetteville City Manager Douglas Hewett has proposed a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that includes higher costs for residents in the form of property tax and trash fee increases. property tax would increase to 56.95 cents per $100 property evaluation, according to the spending plan.
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President Biden, first lady to visit Fort Liberty on Friday
President Joe Biden is scheduled on Friday to visit Fort Liberty, where he and first lady Jill Biden will meet with service members and their families, according to a news release from the White …
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It’s now Fort Liberty; but what about Bragg Boulevard?
On Friday, the largest military installation in the world by population left behind its namesake — Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg — and became Fort Liberty. Before Friday’s ceremony, street names on base that honored the Confederacy also were changed, including a short segment of Bragg Boulevard, which is now Liberty Boulevard within the base’s boundaries. But for the rest of the roadway that is off base, the Bragg name remains.
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It’s official: Fort Bragg is now Fort Liberty
More than 100 years ago in 1918, Camp Bragg was built. The installation later became Fort Bragg and grew to be the largest military installation in the world by population. On Friday, the base was …
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‘It’s not named for someone. It’s named for an idea.’ Elected officials and community respond to soon-to-be Fort Liberty
In May 2020, Fayetteville native George Floyd was killed when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the Black man’s neck for 9 minutes and 30 seconds. That racial reckoning led not only to the murder conviction of Derek Chauvin, the officer who killed Floyd, but also led to bans on police chokeholds in some states; the removal of Confederate monuments, including in Fayetteville; and eventually the decision to rename military installations honoring the Confederacy.
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Cumberland County staff recommends no property tax increase but raising waste fee
In a presentation Thursday, Cumberland County administrators recommended to the Board of Commissioners a $566.9 million budget for the next fiscal year with no changes in the property tax rate.
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Fayetteville police officers cleared by state in death of Jada Johnson
The state will not file criminal charges against the Fayetteville police officers who killed Jada Johnson last summer, the N.C. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. Johnson, 22, was shot 17 times and killed last July.
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PWC budget with $5 million in added spending sails to approval
With unanimous approval by the Fayetteville Public Works Commission on Wednesday, the city’s hometown utility has a new budget that totals $428.8 million, more than $5 million above its spending plan last year.
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PWC to hold public hearing on next year’s budget, which will increase spending
Fayetteville Public Works Commission customers will have a chance to make their voices heard on their hometown utility’s recommended budget for next year, which totals $428.8 million. That’s $5 million more than the budget approved last year.