People can also submit their budget feedback online by visiting /budget. Wake County Commons Building, 4011 Carya Drive, Raleigh. Wake Technical Community College - RTP Campus, 10908 Chapel Hill Road, Morrisville. There are four public hearings for people to give their feedback on the budget. The proposed budget also includes money for new positions including 15 in the child welfare program, 20 in EMS and six new sheriff’s office. The proposed budget includes pay increases for starting Wake County deputies and detention officers, at $50,540. There were more than 200 vacancies in the Wake County Sheriff’s Office. The county has about 4,400 full-time employees.Įllis is recommending a merit pay increase ranging from 2% to 6.5%. The county government has a 10% vacancy rate and had a turnover rate of nearly 15.5% in 2022. Wake County, like several other local governments, faces a difficult employer market. In total, funding for WCPSS and Wake Tech make up 57% of Wake County’s budget. Wake Tech would also get a boost in local money with a $2.4 million increase for a total of $32.5 million from the county. The Wake County Board of Education will vote on a recommended budget Tuesday. Her proposed budget includes a $55.8 million, or 9%, increase in local education funding, for a total of $649 million. That falls short of what Superintendent Catty Moore requested. The proposed Wake County budget recommends a $40 million increase, for a total of $634 million in local money for WCPSS. The local school system receives funding from local, state and federal sources. The fire tax district funds fire services in the unincorporated parts of Wake County and in the town of Wendell. If approved, the tax increase would cost the owner of a $300,000 home $98 more in county property taxes a year, for a total of $1,956.Įllis also proposed a 2-cent increase for the fire tax district bringing it to 12.27 cents per $100 of property valuation. The proposed budget recommends a 3.25-cent tax-rate increase, or just over 5%, bringing the property tax rate to 65.2 cents per $100 of assessed property value.Ī penny of the proposed tax-rate increase reflects voters approving nearly $900 million in bonds for Wake Tech and the Wake County Public School System in 2022. For the more than $175 million in additional funding requests from county departments, the school system and Wake Tech this year, Ellis said there is only $65 million in newly available revenue.
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