The County Manager is working to finalize the proposed FY 2022-2023 budget, which must statutorily be provided to the Board prior to June 1, 2022. Once the County Manager provides the budget to the Board, the Clerk will need to publish the notice that it has been received and also include the date/time of the public hearing.
North Carolina General Statute 159-12 states:
(a) On the same day that he submits the budget to the governing board, the budget officer shall file a copy of it in the office of the clerk to the board where it shall remain available for public inspection until the budget ordinance is adopted. The clerk shall make a copy of the budget available to all news media in the county. He shall also publish a statement that the budget has been submitted to the governing board, and is available for public inspection in the office of the clerk to the board. The statement shall also give notice of the time and place of the budget hearing required by subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Before adopting the budget ordinance, the board shall hold a public hearing at which time any persons who wish to be heard on the budget may appear.
In anticiplation of receiving the budget prior to June 1st, the Board is asked to schedule the public hearing for the FY 2022-23 proposed budget on June 20, 2022 at 6:00 p.m., or, as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard. The rules for the public hearing will be as follows:
- The length of comment for each speaker will be limited to three (3) minutes to address the Board and comments shall be restricted to the subject of the hearing as advertised.
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