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Winston-Salem may trim budget in face of expected tax bill increases for most citizens


Most Winston-Salem taxpayers will see higher tax bills in the coming year, but members of the city council s Finance Committee voted Thursday to limit the increase by endorsing a tax rate of 61.24 cents for every $100 of taxable property, for the 2021-22 fiscal year.
That s a penny lower than the rate recommended by City Manager Lee Garrity in his proposed budget.
It remains for the full Winston-Salem City Council to set the tax rate, which should occur during the council s June 21 meeting. 
Winston-Salem Mayor Allen Joines doesn t vote on the council unless he needs to break a tie, but added his endorsement to the proposed rate during the Thursday discussions on the Finance Committee. ....

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10 days, 9 shootings. Local leaders point to poverty, pandemic and drugs.


Many factors are playing a role in the recent rash of shootings that resulted in the death of one woman and injuries to 19 people in Winston-Salem, several members of the Winston-Salem City Council said Tuesday.
In addition, a man died from injuries received May 5 after police returned gunfire at a home during a standoff in Ardmore.
“It’s a myriad of things,” Council Member Denise “D.D.” Adams said. “It goes further back than COVID.”
Problems such as poverty, hunger, unemployment, drug abuse, poor education, crime, mental illness, and health-care disparities plagued neighborhoods before the pandemic, Adams said.
The pandemic magnified those problems, and has played a role in increasing numbers of shootings nationwide and in Winston-Salem, Adams said. ....

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