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Councilors press for performance reviews, workshops and weigh transportation penny trade-offs in budget talks
Summary
Councilors asked for more in-depth workshops, performance audits, and discussed using transportation-revenue strategies to fund housing or other priorities while recognizing trade-offs and timing constraints.
Greenville County councilors used the budget workshop to ask for a program of deeper line-item review, to fund performance reviews of county departments, and to debate whether future transportation revenue (a proposed local transportation “penny”) could be used to shore up workforce housing or prioritize roads.
Key points
- Performance audit / evaluations: Multiple councilors backed budgeting for performance reviews of county departments so council could better assess service levels and seek efficiencies. One councilor said “the performance…
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