The bulk-item pickup scheduled for last Friday will be completed by tomorrow (4/17), according an announcement posted today on the Town of Southern Shores website. The Town thanks you for your patience and requests that you not put any more items out for pickup because they will not be collected.
EARTH DAYS, APRIL 20-22: For information about how you can participate in the cleanups and other activities planned for Earth Days 2024 in Southern Shores, go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earth-days-2024-tickets-872011308297.
Earth Day is April 22. It was first celebrated in 1970.
BREAKING NEWS BULLETIN: NO TOWN TAX INCREASE FOR FY 2024-25.
The Town will not seek a tax increase in order to balance the fiscal year 2024-25 Town budget, Town Manager Cliff Ogburn confirmed at this morning’s budget workshop with the Town Council. Any shortfall between revenues and expenditures will be made up by a disbursement of monies from what Mr. Ogburn described as “$4.8 million in spendable fund balance.”
By “fund balance,” Mr. Ogburn refers to the Town’s undesignated fund, which it maintains for emergency purposes, such as natural disaster relief. By order of the Town Council, this fund must contain at least $3.5 million.
The Beacon looked at the big-ticket expenses anticipated in the next fiscal year budget on 4/6/24.
THE BEACON, 4/16/24
The Southern Shores Beacon 