Following the adoption of two new pieces of legislation, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners held a special meeting on July 14 to review two options presented to them:
• Use the outdated 2021 schedule of property values combined with a 61.54-cent tax rate to uphold the budget the Board adopted more than a month ago.
• Use the updated 2026 schedule of property values combined with a 40-cent revenue-neutral tax rate, which would reduce the adopted budget by more than $24 million…