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Raeford council reviews budget priorities: public works building, cemetery expansion pulled, police vehicle requests and water contract updates
Summary
City Manager Dennis Baxley outlined budget shifts including pulling a $500,000 cemetery expansion estimate and adding a $350,000 public works building request; the council also heard about two $100,000 police vehicle requests and an unresolved county water contract with $72,000 in unpaid reimbursements.
City Manager Dennis Baxley told the Raeford City Council on April 7 that revenue projections for the coming fiscal year were still in progress and that he had removed a roughly $500,000 site‑work quote for cemetery expansion from the draft budget pending further review.
Baxley said Public Works is requesting $350,000 to build a 50-by-150-foot replacement pole-barn to prevent equipment freezing in winter. He warned that if the city borrowed to build larger new facilities (police office and public works), the city would be committed to 20–30 years of debt service; state funding remains…
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