County commissioners to hold emergency meeting Thursday to consult with their attorney on how to respond to school board challenge
Alamance County’s leaders have been in a holding pattern since Tuesday afternoon when the Alamance-Burlington school board resolved to challenge the local school system’s allowance in the county’s newly-approved budget.
This move, which came less than 24 hours after the budget’s adoption, concerns the same statutory “mediation’ process that the school board invoked a year ago to compel the board of commissioners to add roughly $4 million to the county’s original outlay for the local school system’s day-to-day operations…