The Catawba County Board of Commissioners has adopted a County budget for fiscal year 2008-2009.

The budget holds the County property tax rate stable at 53.5 cents per $100 of property value, as promised with the passage of the 1/4 cent sales tax. It funds debt payments for the current four year cycle of facility needs for the three public school systems and Catawba Valley Community College; needed water and sewer projects; additional public safety positions in law enforcement, EMS, 911 Communications Center and Animal Services; and the expansion of operating hours at County parks. FY 2008-09 budget 

Catawba County teams with Hickory Crawdads and N.C. Division of Pollution Prevention for a grand slam for recycling

“Take me out to the ballgame…” is a line you might be repeating after Catawba County’s recycling event during the Hickory Crawdads game with the Augusta Green Jackets later this month.  There'll be free recycling promotional items, education about recycling in Catawba County, and the first pitch will be thrown by the famous Can Guy! The fun begins on Saturday, June 28th at 7:00 p.m. at L.P. Frans Stadium on Clement Blvd. off Highway 321 in Hickory.  Full story

The Catawba County Board of Commissioners' next meeting will begin at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 2008 at the 1924 Courthouse at 30 North College Avenue in Newton, NC

The Catawba County Board of Commissioners will consider awarding bids for construction of the northern section of the Southeast Catawba County Wastewater Collection system and budget transfers to complete expansion projects at Bandys and Bunker Hill High Schools, when the Board meets at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 16, 2008, in the Robert E. Hibbitts Meeting Room of the 1924 Courthouse at 30 North College Avenue in Newton.

The Board will also consider authorizing its chairperson to sign applicable contracts related to incentives previously approved by the Board for Sutter Street Manufacturing, which will build a new manufacturing facility in Hickory, and create 820 new jobs and invest approximately $2.7 million in Catawba County over the next five years; a transfer of funds reserved for the Kids In Need Fund, so this money may be used to assist children in need; the appropriation of Federal grants funds designated to cover the costs to operate a new one-stop polling place in Mountain View for the May 6 primary election and $53,300 for a required second primary for the North Carolina Labor Commissioner’s office; the incorporation of a fee increase by the City of Newton for septage hauling into the County's fee structure; an amendment to a Community Development Block Grant Scattered Site Housing Grant Program to reflect income to the program after a rehabilitated home was sold by the heirs of a participant of the program; and the approval of County enrollment in the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission’s Beaver Management Assistance Program.  Full agenda

City of Hickory modifies water restrictions to allow washing of cars once a week.

These restrictions apply to water users in Hickory, Conover, Claremont, Town of Catawba, Brookford, Long View, Maiden, and Mountain View and Sherrills Ford areas of Catawba County.  Full story

City of Newton removes all mandatory water restrictions. Newton is still implementing voluntary water use reduction measures. Full story

Duke Energy's latest assessment of drought conditions. Duke Energy drought information

Meals on Wheels has urgent need for summer volunteers

If you have a valid driver’s license and an hour to spare each month, the Meals On Wheels program of Catawba County needs your help this summer. Being a Meals on Wheels volunteer is simple. You’ll be asked to deliver meals to local home-bound seniors for one hour, one day per month.  Full story

Focus on County Services.  The Catawba County Parks System...growing in more ways than one!

With approval of the Catawba County fiscal year 2008-2009 budget, both Baker's Mountain and Riverbend Parks will soon return to a full six day per week schedule, open Thursdays through Tuesdays and closed only on Wednesdays and Christmas Day.  Plans are continuing for the reopening of St. Stephens Park, under Catawba County administration, in early 2009.  Full story

Monday evening story times are back at County Library in Newton.

Richard Griffin, Youth Services librarian, resumed weekly story times for young children on June 9 at 6:30 p.m., a time when many working families can visit the library together and enjoy stories with their young children.  Story times will continue at that hour through July 14.   Full story

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