Bertie County Budget Approved As Submitted

Despite some exagerated comments by a small group of citizens, the comment period on Monday night indicated that the majority of citizens recognize the reasonableness of the budget that was submitted by Zee Lamb. No one fails to recognize that our county, though excited about prospects for the future, does not have a lot of money to spend at this point.

Raising taxes would be a truly bad idea and would hurt more people than could be helped by the money it would generate.

Zee Lamb, James Basemore, Norman Cherry, Rick Harrell, L.C. Hoggard and Wallace Perry Before Budget Hearing Monday Night

That is the reason that our County Commissioners voted in favor of the budget as submitted. I think they did a good job in what is always a tough process. Congratulations to everyone involved.