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At public hearing Monday night . . . County budget gets once-over By Randall Rigsbee Chatham County commissioners spent most of a Monday afternoon work session discussing the county’s proposed fiscal year 2005/06 budget before conducting a public hearing on the proposal Monday night. Commissioners will continue to work on the budget at a public input session Monday, May 23 in the Siler City Town Hall, 311 N. Second Ave. The session will begin at 7 p.m. Commissioners have also scheduled a budget work session on June 6. “After the 6th, we feel like we’ll be able to take some action,” board chairman Bunkey Morgan said. The current county property tax rate is 64.64 cents per $100 of property, which has been the county’s rate for the past four years. A tax increase is likely this year, though by how much hasn’t been decided. This year, property in Chatham County was revalued for the first time in four years. Prior to Monday’s public hearing, assistant county manager Renee Dickson reviewed calculations for a “revenue neutral” tax ate, which is the rate necessary to generate the same amount of revenue the county would have realized in the upcoming fiscal year had a property revaluation not been conducted. The “revenue neutral” tax rate would be 55.7 cents per $100. In his proposed budget, county manager Charlie Horne is recommending an additional six cents more than the revenue neutral rate, for a tax rate of 61.7 cents per $100.
Child drowns in Jordan Lake By Cara Rotondaro Rangers believe that a six-year-old who drowned at Jordan Lake Saturday, May 14, did not know how to swim, said Greg Schneider, park superintendent of Jordan Lake. Oscar Perez-Rueda was with his family at the Parker’s Creek swimming area when someone noticed that the child wasn’t moving, said Schneider. Perez-Rueda was a kindergartner at Moncure Elementary School. At approximately 4 p.m. on Saturday an individual informed a nearby ranger that an unresponsive child was in the water. Once the ranger arrived at the scene, the child was being removed from the water. When no heart rate was detected, the ranger and a bystander began CPR immediately, said Schneider, and continued until First Health arrived and transported Perez-Rueda to UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill, where he was pronounced dead. An investigation into the drowning by Jordan Lake officials is ongoing, they said Monday.
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Jeff Davis photo I’ve got an eye on you . . . Will Osborne uses a magnifying glass at the annual Rocky River Festival last Wednesday. Will, who is home schooled, was just one of many third grade students that gathered on a site just south of Pittsboro, to learn more about the Chatham County river. Students not only were shown displays of various nature, but participated in crafts and found all sorts of critters in the river. For more on the festival see page 16-B. County high schools ready for graduation By Bob Wachs A big change is in store for more than 400 Chatham County high school seniors within a few days. By the time the sun sets on Friday, May 27, those students will no longer be students but instead will be alumni, graduates of the county’s high schools. County school system spokesman Beth McCullough said this week that all three county high schools have their graduation plans in hand, including a first-ever for one of them. Northwood High School will hold its graduation ceremonies off campus for the first time, a move brought about in part because of the size of the class and the demand for tickets to the event. Graduation for all three schools is set for Friday, May 27. Tickets will be needed for those events at Chatham Central and Jordan Matthews but not for Northwood, which will hold its graduation at Carmichael Auditorium on the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill at 12 Noon. Northwood’s graduation is open to the public, although the 218 seniors will have tickets for some individuals to have select seating, McCullough says. Chatham Central has 76 seniors in its class of 2005 with commencement set for Friday, May 27 at 7 p.m. in the Polly O. Yow Auditorium on the campus. Tickets are required. Jordan Matthews has scheduled graduation for its 138 seniors in the school auditorium at 7 p.m. on May 27, as well. Tickets are also required although space for additional guests will be available in the JM gym with close-circuit television coverage of the ceremony. The four seniors from SAGE Academy, the county’s alternative high school comprised of students from throughout the county, will return to Jordan Matthews to graduate on May 27. In addition to the graduation ceremonies, each school has scheduled a baccalaureate service for Sunday, May 22 in their respective auditoriums beginning at 7 p.m. Tickets are required at Northwood but the services are open to the public at JM and Central.
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