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Resident urges county to prioritize worker raises over new housing nonprofit funding
Summary
At public comment, resident Katie Morgan criticized the board’s October allocation of $400,000 to launch a county-affiliated affordable-housing nonprofit and urged the commissioners to instead use funds to increase county workers’ pay to address recruitment and retention problems.
During the public comment period at the March 2 meeting, Katie Morgan urged the board to prioritize immediate workforce pay increases for county employees rather than funding a newly created affordable-housing nonprofit.
"The $400,000 committed to start the Dare Housing Foundation nonprofit could have gone straight to helping county workers…
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