Stokes County Commissioners vote for $26.5 million for school capital projects - No tax increase at this time

(By Leslie Bray, The Stokes News) - So many people turned out for the regular afternoon county commissioners meeting on Monday that the fire marshal had to ask several folks to move to the hall for fire code reasons. The citizens had heard that the board might raise taxes to build new schools.

They were partially right.

On Nov. 8, the board did indeed finally vote to commence with school capital projects, but they did not pass a tax increase to do it. The commissioners voted 4-1 to incur debt for $26.5 million for school construction/renovations. Vice Chair Ernest Lankford was the nay vote.