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Aaron chats with Chapel Hill Town Manager Chris Blue, who recently presented his budget proposal to the Town Council. That budget includes a 2-cent property tax increase, as part of a five-year strategy to address infrastructure and facilities maintenance issues that had been put off. There will be a public hearing on the budget Wednesday, May 15, at 6 p.m. in Town Hall.
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Continued example of Town’s manager, mayor, and council inability to manage and control costs or put citizens first rather than the entrenched bureaucracy that so easily continues to ask for and receive more, more, more.