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County Commissioners Adopt $2.2 Billion Operating Budget for FY23

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The Board of County Commissioners has adopted Mecklenburg County’s budget for Fiscal Year 2023.

The $2.2-billion budget features a 6.7% increase, or $145 million, over the current FY2022 operating budget. The budget maintains the existing tax rate of 61.69 cents and works to achieve four broad goals:

  • Fund programs and services that align with the Board’s priorities, including affordable housing, education attainment gaps, environmental leadership, Meck Pre-K, workforce development and racial disparities.
  • Demonstrate prudent decisions to protect Mecklenburg County’s financial strength now and for the future, especially given multiple geopolitical influences.
  • Strengthen Mecklenburg County through investments that build resiliency in the community and ensure that no one is left behind.
  • Leverage the historic utilization of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds for long-term value investments that will bring a high return and aid those most affected by COVID-19, support workers, and enhance infrastructure.

The FY2023 budget will take effect July 1, 2022. Highlights include:

Affordable Housing

  • $8.1 million for onetime funding to support the Rental Subsidy Fund, including $3.1 million for the Billingsley mixed-income development and $5 million for other programs.
  • $3 million in recurring funding for rental subsidies.
  • $1 million contribution to the capital campaign for Rebound men’s campus at Charlotte Rescue Mission.
  • $778,000 for the United Way of Central Carolinas to administer A Home For All: Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s Strategy To End & Prevent Homelessness.
  • $500,000 for the County to research the effects of corporate-owned real estate and its impact on residents and values.
  • $300,000 to expand current vendor housing program for justice involved persons.
  • $100,000 to support the preservation of Pottstown, a historically Black neighborhood in Huntersville.

Education Attainment Gaps 

$7.4 million in new funding for libraries, literacy programming and skill development for career readiness including:

  • $4.2 million for new CMS initiatives.
  • $3 million for the Carolinas Aviation Museum to fund education opportunities for students, including STEM education.
  • $250,000 for Out Teach to provide outdoor learning labs…

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“Unpatchable” hardware flaw. Nation-state conflict in cyberspace. Threat actor Aoqin Dragon has been operating since 2013.

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Dateline

Ukraine at D+106: Cyber ops and escalation. (The CyberWire) An artillery war in the Donbas. Russia warns that Western, especially US, “aggression and encouragement of banditry” in cyberspace risks escalation into full combat, and that Washington can be sure that Moscow will retaliate. Beijing issues a similar warning, with special mention of the risks small countries assume when they accept American cybersecurity aid. Canada is on “high alert” for Russian cyberattacks. And Mr. Putin identifies with Tsar Peter the Great.

Live updates | Ukraine: Russia still attacking eastern city (AP NEWS) The Ukrainian army says Kyiv’s forces continue to frustrate Russian attempts to take the fiercely contested eastern city of Sievierodonetsk. “The occupiers, with the help of motorized rifle units and artillery, conducted assault operations in the city of Sievierodonetsk.

‘Dead Cities’ Become the Flashpoint for the Fierce War in the East (New York Times) President Volodymyr Zelensky has framed the battle in Sievierodonetsk as pivotal to the broader fight for the Donbas. Amid relentless Russian attacks, Ukraine holds on and waits for Western weapons.

Key city’s fate in balance as fighting rages in east Ukraine (AP NEWS) Russian forces pounded an eastern Ukrainian city Thursday and the two sides waged pitched street battles that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said could determine the fate of the critical Donbas region.

UK says Mariupol at risk of cholera outbreak (Reuters) Ukraine’s southern city of Mariupol is at risk of a major cholera outbreak as medical services are likely already near collapse, Britain’s defence ministry said on Friday.

We’re almost out of ammunition and relying on western arms, says Ukraine (the Guardian) Exclusive: Deputy head of military intelligence says it’s an artillery war now and ‘everything depends on what the west gives us’

Live Updates: Ukraine’s Pleas Grow Louder as Soldiers Are Outgunned and Putin Talks of Empire (New York Times) As Ukrainian soldiers try to hold on in the besieged city of Sievierodonetsk, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country must not be forced to stay in a “gray zone” and that it needed more weapons…

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Norton Internet Security 2013 test and review

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G Data Internet Security 2013 review

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