Council Meets at 5 P.M. Tuesday to Discuss Replacing Martin and Starnes Auditing and Hear about the Reduced Historic Tax Credits

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♦ Tuesday City Council Meets at 5 p.m. at 217 South Main Street to discuss replacing Martin and Starnes Auditing with the Elliot Davis Decosimo after it was revealed by the RFP that the city’s finance manager Wade Furches solicited perks from Martin and Starnes and got them.

BREAKING: City of Salisbury Changes Audit Firm One Month after PERKS to Finance Manager Wade Furches Were Revealed in RFP

Also on Tuesday’s agenda is a presentation by ex-mayor Susan Klutz, who lost to Paul Woodson and became the N.C. Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources. Klutz junketed around the state with the governor in a failed bid to fully reinstate the North Carolina Historic Tax Credits. Instead McCrory only received a pat on the head from state lawmakers and a greatly diminished historic tax credit package. In another year that pittance will be halved. Perhaps at in the near future historic tax credits will be eradicated entirely and small businessmen will be able to spend their own money on their businesses as they see fit instead of being forced through historic tax credits to gift often wealthy city hall cronies to “historically” renovate their buildings and manses. If someone desires to restore their houses and buildings let them do it on their own dime. In meantime the RFP will bring the utmost harm to this scam. Learn more about this “Historic Tax Credits” and its abuses here:

Local Delegation Chilly to Reviving Historic Preservation Tax Credits. Brock and Warren Fend Off Nagging at Legislative Breakfast

Defrocking the So-Called Historic Preservation “Tax Credit” Scam

Letter-to-the-Editor: Business Owners Prefer to Spend on Their Own Businesses instead Historic Preservation Tax Credits

Historic Preservation Tax Credit Abuses are Many. Time to Protect the Taxpayers and Our Communities

Gentrify This? The Dark Side of Gentrification

Historic Preservation and Gentrification: Modern Weapons for Neighborhood “Cleansing”

Historic Preservation Tax Credits

Also on Monday will be a discussion by City Council about the $2 billion dollar statewide bond referendum called NC Connect Bond Act. While higher educational institutions would profit from the bond, many state taxpayers appear ambivalent about being on the hook for this bond. The outcome of this referendum appears murky.

The council will hear presentations and public comment about special community organizations 2016-2017 budget requests.

A discussion of off-premises billboards within the city zoning jurisdiction.

There will be a PUBLIC COMMENT period and the city manager provides comments.