The public gets the opportunity to weigh in on the city manager’s recommended 2023-2024 fiscal year budget at the Tuesday, June 6 Greensboro City Council meeting beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber.
The public hearing is item F.3 on the agenda, after ceremonial presentations, a request for approval of $13.2 million economic incentive for ProKidney LLC and a rezoning request for 401 Muirs Chapel Road.
The 2023-2024 fiscal year budget recommended by City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba totals $749 million and includes both a 4-cent property tax hike and an 8.5 percent water and sewer rate increase. The proposed property tax rate is 67.25 cents. The proposed budget also reduces the number of authorized sworn police officers by a total of 40 officers.
The City Council has held three work sessions on the manager’s recommended budget but has taken no formal action to amend the recommended budget.
In June 2022, the Jaiyeoba recommended a $688 million budget with the equivalent of an 11.69-cent property tax increase. After the public hearing, that tax increase was reduced by 3 cents, to the equivalent of an 8.69-cent property tax increase – still the largest tax increase in the history of Greensboro. The majority of the 3-cent reduction in the property tax rate increase was the result not of reducing expenditures but of increasing projected revenue.
The revenue projections are estimates and Greensboro has historically been very conservative in those revenue projections. Even though the revenue projections were increased in the current year to make up for the 3-cent reduction in the tax increase, it appears revenue will still come in well above those projections.
Mayor Nancy Vaughan and District 3 City Councilmember Zack Matheny have expressed opposition to the proposed 4-cent tax increase. However, the majority of the City Council appears to support it. In 2022, Vaughan and Justin Outling, who was then the District 3 city councilmember, voted against the budget which passed on a 7-2 vote.
As usual, taking piss poor account of all citizens and wasting tax payers money. Yeah, the usual pet projects will be taken care of and the waste will only increase. You voted them in and now you get financially screwed again. Ain’t socialism great?
I cannot believe what I am reading. Can we just fire this guy already?
$600,000,000. 2021
$620,000,000 2022. 3% increase in budget
$688,000,000 2023.10% increase in budget
$749,000,000 2024 8% increase in budget
This is what we have gotten from our City Manager. In fours years his budgets have gone up over $150,000,000. This is a 20% increase in spending and your taxes have gone up that much as well. This is not to mention how much your water and sewer bills have gone up ( over 20% as well). Now ask yourself have the city service’s gotten any better??? What are we getting for all these price increases??? Looks like to me we are getting the same or worse services for higher taxes. This has got to stop!!!
Rest assured that City tax payers do not have the same ear to ear grin as City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba. The City Manager is incompetent as well deserves to be fired with cause.
FIRE THE CITY MANAGER!
Keep Police compliment of officers the same as before (no cuts). In fact, increase allotment.
Give ALL Police Officers and Fire Fighters raises! We need to be able to hire and keep good officers and fire fighters. Good salaries and benefits are a must.
Taxes were raised too much last year. No more increases are warranted.
I have spoken to people in Charlotte and they are just flabbergasted that Greensboro hired this man. Bad news in Charlotte and bad news in Greensboro. TERMINATE HIM!
Why do we still have this city manager? He must think money grows on trees. I’m here to say it does not. We have already had the largest tax increase ever last year. He wants to increase taxes again this year. Stop spending globs of
money.
Thank you Mayor Vaughan and Council Member Matheny for voting no.
Sincerely
Barbara Hayes
Jaiyeoba is being paid $6,000 per week (no typo).
For him, money is plentiful.
What did you expect?
Nancy and Zack have voiced objection to the tax increase but as usual won’t do anything. They know that they do not have the votes. “They” aren’t giving the police market value adjustments in salary. The police department is paying for most of it by eliminating positions. Positions they can never fill because new people do not want to come here. When discussing salaries start discussing the benefits agencies like Burlington have added. Two wellness weeks for example. I like how Greensboro aims for mediocrity. The city manager will win his 2 phase presentation of getting the GPD opening salary up.
For the 1000th time Sharon police are not the same as other employees. I heard your comment about only hearing about public safety. Other positions were at market rate. Once again when Parks & Rec or Water runs a 24/7 365 schedule where they may get shot at then you can compare these jobs.
Maybe it’s time to move out of Greensboro
Long time ago…..
The African Marxist who’s the City Manager is doing precisely what Marxists do : enriching and empowering government at the expense of the people.
Taxes & regulations will continue to escalate unless he is fired.