The Chapel Hill town manager presented a very tight budget for the coming fiscal year. As part of covering 
core services in a time of noticeably lower revenue, he delays for 6 months the 65-cent-per-hour pay raise for the town’s lowest-paid workers that the town committed to in being certified a Living Wage employer. But he protected fully the salaries of town executives making upwards of $170,000 this year.
Read more in my latest column for The Local Reporter: https://thelocalreporter.press/are-we-really-allinthistogether/.
— Nancy Oates
