Board has nothing to add to budget
There was an item on Tuesday evening’s agenda for a discussion about Town Manager Kip Padgett’s 2019-2020 budget but town board members said they had nothing to add, leaving the spending plan for next year as Padgett proposed. The tax rate remains at 52 cents per $100 valuation on property, with 11 cents allocated to the independent Wake Forest Fire Department. If all goes as expected when the town receives a report from a consultant, planning to incorporate the fire department into town government will begin this fall with the fire department becoming a town department in the 2020-2021 budget. Chief Financial Officer Aileen Staples said she expects to delay a bond referendum until 2022 “to see what the entire impacts are of the fire department becoming a town department.” She said she expects those impacts to be “pretty significant.” The fire department has asked the town to undertake the
