EOD has it on reliable sources that the reason that Dare County hasn't enacted the additional 1% occupancy tax (making us one of the highest in the State) is because Chairman Warren Judge (who wants the tax in so back he can't sleep) can't muster a board majority right now. Sources tell us Judge can't get four of the commissioners to vote with him until they see if Nags Head is going to be able to pull off their petition drive. Right now, things are going slowly with that endeavor. They have about 30 more days to get the required (and legally required) petitions in hand and verified. As of 9/27/10 they had only 65% of the signatures and 49% of the land valuations needed to meet their goal of increasing property taxes on all landowners in their project zone.
"And they are having some other problems," said our source, whom we reserve the right to protect.
So, folks, hold on to your hats. Maybe, just maybe the commissioners will soon wake up and ask the state legislature to allow the use of this important tax revenue for more important county matters.
6 comments:
Here's what I would love to see happen. Nags Head does not get the votes. Everyone who whined about dredging filthy sand off the bottom of the ocean and putting it on the beach needs to find a new cause.... so....
Nags Head hires my company to run the numbers and institute a system of gradual, planned, strategic retreat in high-erosion areas.
We come up with a plan where ocean-side lodging remains constant, so that if we, on average, lose 20 homes every 20 years, we build enough to replace that at our tax base remains constant.
We go public with our environmental message that we don't have to f--- with mother nature to have a sustainable beach community. No, we can live in harmony with shifting shorelines.
We take the high road, letting our precious shoreline live and breathe rather than mauling it and hacking it up just so we can make a few bucks.
And we take all that money we save, 36 million dollars, and use it to buy me, in gratitude, the largest screen television ever created. Football, ladies and gentlemen, will be at my house!
Yeah, Jake !
Commissioners are acting like the beach erosion is all new. H-e-l-l-o... It's an on-going, natural process. The Aquarium has a wonderful display that explains what is happening.
Kitty Hawk has survived quite well with their beach erosion. Have people stopped going there?
Don't mess with Mother Nature !
nags head just fired there planning director. hush hush why?
Just looked at the streaming slide show on the Bob & NH BN site. Seems to me they ought to spend their money cleaning up the mess instead of trying to build a fake (and short lived) beach around the debris that's there now.
Why can't the powers that be get it that the beach is always going to be there? It's going to move, but it will still exist. We got in the way so we have to get out of the way when necessary.
Jake, I like the way you think...except for the TV part.
Maryruth
Ray,
You need to get the story straight and tell the truth. At various meetings one of which you attended, Judge has held the position that the project must be underway before the DCBOC will consider the tax. My sources in Nags Head tell me that Judge has made that point clear to the Mayor for well over a year now and long before the DCBOC even considered the request to the General Assembly. Get the facts straight and leave our hard working Commissioner alone.
EOD stands by this blogpost, but will add that our source(s) is from the boc, itself. Meanwhile, what Judge has been making clear to Nags Head is they will not get the county funding until they have, (1) the project approved and permits in hand, and (2) their contributive portion of the funding committted and/or in hand. This has nothing to do with WHEN the commissioner decide to enact the tax. The legislature gave them approval to impose it any time they wish. Now, how reliable is your source?
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