No complaints about Vance budget


The Vance County Board of Commissioners was scheduled to meet Wednesday afternoon to give county department heads a chance to complain about the proposed budget the commissioners will approve this month. But whether out of hopelessness or satisfaction, no department heads wished to argue for any changes, so the commissioners canceled their meeting. The budget appears likely to wind up largely as County Manager Jerry Ayscue proposed, though with a 2-cent increase in the property tax rate, to 92 cents per $100 valuation, instead of Ayscue’s proposed 3 cents.