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** Budget Adopted for Fiscal Year 2023: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023
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** Charlotte City Council Approves $3.2 billion budget
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Highlights of the adopted FY 2023 budget include:

A balanced and fiscally responsible budget that:
* Does not increase taxes.
* Does not reduce core services.
* Does not use any operating reserves.
* Does not lay off or furlough employees.

Focuses on retaining and investing in our employees:
* Provides an 8% salary increase for all general hourly employees (4% in July and 4% in January).
* Increases the minimum wage to $20/hour for 40-hour per week employees by January 2023.
* Increases starting police officer and firefighter pay by 9% in July, and 10.5% by January 2023.
* Provides a 3% market adjustment (1.5% in July and 1.5% in January) plus a 2.5 to 5% step increase for all eligible public safety pay plan employees.
* Maintains current employee healthcare premiums.
* Provides a 4% merit pool for salaried employees.
* Provides a 2% one-time retention incentive (from American Rescue Plan Act funds) for full-time employees (senior management and executives not included).
* Creates a 2.5% salary incentive for jobs that require a commercial driver's license.
* Supports a shift differential incentive of 2.5% beginning in January 2023.
* Enhances the education incentive so there is no up-front cost for employees to receive an associate's degree from CPCC.
* Provides for homeownership assistance for city employees through the House Charlotte homeowner assistance program with $2 million in the program dedicated for city employees.

Plans for our future through the $226 million 2022 proposed bond:
* Maintains $50 million investment in affordable housing.
* Doubles the 2020 bond totals for the bike program, from $4 million to $8 million.

– Provides $17.1 million of funding for the Vision Zero strategy:
– $12.6 million to enhance transportation safety, more than six times the previous bond
funding of $2 million in the 2018 and 2020 bonds.
* $4.5 million for street lighting program - new program to implement new street lighting projects along high-injury network streets or to enhance existing street lighting by converting existing lights to LED.
* Invests $10 million for the Corridors of Opportunity program.
* Invests $10 million in congestion mitigation projects in South Charlotte, University City, and Steele Creek.

For additional budget highlights click here ([link removed]) and see news reporting by Joe Bruno and Gina Esposito of WSOC-TV here ([link removed]) .

I have worked diligently to be a good steward of our taxpayers' dollars and very much want to continue the work I have started as your At-Large City Councilwoman. I humbly ask for your vote in the upcoming primary election.

Dimple Ajmera
Charlotte City Councilwoman At-Large
[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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