Today is D-Day for anyone eager to battle local budget plans. Both the Henderson City Council and the Vance County Board of Commissioners will hold the lone public hearing required by law before they enact budgets for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The county hearing will open at the start of the commissioners’ regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. at the county Administration Building (the old courthouse). The city hearing will start around 8 p.m., once the council moves through a few preliminary items on the agenda for its 7:30 meeting at the Municipal Building. Speak now or forever hold your peace regarding tax increases, sanitation policy, library funding, law enforcement, etc. Only the property tax rates will be set in stone when the city and county pass their budgets, but the decisions made in June tend to go unchallenged until the next budget season.