Charlotte City Council meets tonight with a vote scheduled to adopt the city’s new budget. It doesn’t call for a property tax increase, but the city’s stormwater fee will increase by an average of nearly 70 cents a month and the city’s sewer fee will increase about $5.50 a month. It also raises the minimum pay for city employees to $24 an hour, an increase of one dollar. Hourly employees are also slated to get a 4% pay bump over the next year, in two phases.
The city’s general fund, which pays for police, firefighters and other municipal services, will grow 5%, to $944 million under the budget. The business meeting starts at 6:30
