The county has been going through the process of implementing an impact fee on new-home construction to pay for new schools.
The thinking is that the new houses, creating the need for new schools, should help pay for their construction.
The county announced Thursday that the Budget Task force will meet yet again on October 11 at 3:30 p.m. in the conference room of the County Administrative Complex. They will “continue discussions relative to the Residential Developmental Educational Impact Fee,” according to the public notice.
The Education Impact Fee would pay for the one-time costs associated with building new schools or expanding existing ones, so as to abrogate the need for increasing property taxes or issuing bonds- id est: create more debt.
“I think that most people understand and know we are trying to figure out a way that new growth, new folks moving in, will share the burden, and that it is not put on the existing residents,” county mayor Rogers Anderson said.
Current methods of funding are not adequate for the needs the county anticipates, and the task force has been considering recommending an impact fee, according to Anderson.
For a breakdown of the fees, read our story from last month.
