Woodward County Commissioners Approve Road, Fire and Sales-Tax Measures

UNC AD pushes for LLC to help manage — and grow — Tar Heels’ athletic revenue

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina athletic director Steve Newmark presented a plan Tuesday to house revenue-generating parts of the UNC athletic department within an associated entity. If approved, six pieces of the athletic department — multimedia rights, licensing, ticketing,…

Woodward County Commissioners approve road, fire and sales-tax measures

A packed room of Woodward County officials, fire department representatives and others gathered Monday as county commissioners worked through a hefty agenda that included rural fire funding, opening bids for a new fire department skid unit, road projects and other…

Travelers Rest sends penny tax measure to voters

Travelers Rest voters will decide in November’s general election whether the city imposes a municipal penny tax for parks, trails, roads and other capital projects. City Council voted Aug. 10 to approve putting the referendum on the ballot during a special called meeting. The city estimates a penny tax would generate $19.8 million over the next eight years to fund $15.8 million in capital projects and provide nearly $4 million in property tax re…

County Commissioners to address taxes, fees and repair grants for fire victims

Welcome to CIVICS, where we break down the week’s municipal meetings throughout the Inland Northwest, so you can get involved and speak out about the issues you care about.  Some things that stick out to us include, well, what happened last week. The wildfires that devastated parts of Spokane and the coming recovery efforts certainly overshadow the government meetings this week. So before we bullet out our (short) list of CIVICS happenings, we w…