Mecklenburg County Commissioners voted Thursday to restore some of the funding cuts to community organizations in the county manager’s proposed budget. The restoration included hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups like Crisis Assistance Ministry, as well as smaller amounts for groups like the Regional AIDS Interfaith Network. The funds would come from county reserves, a move county manager Dena Diorio cautioned against in the face of economic uncertainty.
"Construction has slowed and so new growth on the property tax side I think is gonna be fairly limited over the next few years we don't know what the impact is gonna be for cuts at the federal level and how those trickle down to the state and how those trickle down to to the local level," Diorio said.
The county commission is set to vote on their $2.5 billion budget next week. It includes a roughly 2% property tax increase, as well as cuts to some county departments, but fully funds Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ budget request.