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Challenges:

• Coping with the impact of the State's withholding of $17 million in local revenues.
• Containing ever-increasing health care costs while providing a moderate amount of income protection for City employees

Challenges:

• Coping with the impact of the State's withholding of $17 million in local revenues.
• Containing ever-increasing health care costs while providing a moderate amount of income protection for City employees

Successes:

• Maintained a AAA credit rating - the highest possible - for general obligation bonds.  The City has maintained this rating for nearly 29 consecutive years from the Moody's rating agency and 26 consecutive years from Standard & Poor's.
• Annexed .71 square miles into the city.  The total real and personal property value of the annexed area is approximately $11.6 million.
• Recovered $368,500 by pursuing reimbursements from individuals for damage to City vehicles and property.
• Saved approximately $700,000 by ordering computers and computer supplies through a Citywide bulk-ordering program and by installing and replacing computers on a coordinated schedule.
• Maintained one of the lowest water and sewer rates in the State - ranked in the lowest 25% of North Carolina's largest cities.
• Spent less than half the statewide average to collect each ton of garbage.  City's average was $37 per ton compared to statewide average of $98 per ton; the amount collected per worker was twice the statewide average.