Saturday's Internet Edition, May 17, 2008.
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Whether that means building a new hospital in Hillsdale, as has been the rumor for weeks, remains to be seen. The answer could come Tuesday when county commissioners have scheduled a special meeting for 11:30 a.m.
Among the items to be discussed will be a resolution of support for a plan by Baptist Hospital to enhance health care in Davie County, and consideration of an agreement with N.C. Baptist Hospital and the Davie County Emergency Health Corp.
As of Tuesday, there had been no apparent land transfers recorded with the Davie Register of Deeds that would indicate a location for a new hospital.
Tuesday will be busy for the commissioners, who also have scheduled a special meeting for 11 a.m. to discuss a request for $1 million for school technology and to discuss the possibility of letting voters say yes or no to new taxes.
The recently passed $20.7 million state budget gives counties the authority, with voter approval, to add new taxes.
Davie commissioners will discuss an upcoming public referendum to either increase the local sales tax by one quarter cent or establish a real estate transfer fee this Tuesday in a special meeting.
County attorney Bob Price told commissioners last week that both options could be put on the ballot for the November election and if the vote of Davie people were in favor of one or both, that would give commissioners the ability to authorize the tax.
Commissioners would only have the ability to levy one tax or the other and can't have both in existence at the same time.
"If the board should wish to call for an advisory tax referendum on either of these, or both, then we have to have our instructions ready for the voters by Sept. 7," Price told commissioners. "I would respectively suggest the board take action as soon as possible ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.