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Greenville: one‑cent sales tax takes effect Feb. 1; mayor reports hospital sale progress and council approves budgeted expenditures
Summary
Mayor Jae’Ques Brown said Frey Medical Management will begin managing and pursue purchase of the local hospital; City Clerk Dee Blackmon said a one‑cent sales tax approved for two years takes effect Feb. 1. The council unanimously approved three budgeted expenditures totaling $12,462.
Mayor Jae’Ques Brown told the Greenville City Council on Jan. 12 that Frey Medical Management will begin managing the local hospital and pursue its purchase. Brown also clarified that the recently approved one‑cent sales tax was intended to strengthen the city’s finances, ‘‘not to attract Chick‑fil‑A,’’ according to his remarks recorded on the agenda summary.
City Clerk‑Treasurer Dee H. Blackmon said the one percent sales tax…
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