Even though there are no presidential aspirants on the November 4th ballot, voters will nevertheless have many choices to make.  One of them is on the issue of allowing Carteret County to impose an additional quarter-cent sales and use tax, which some of our Commissioners hope to devote entirely to dredging projects within the County.

The folks in the Wilmington area are going a different way.  The following is excerpted from a short piece under the “Town and County” section of Carolina Journal’s October issue:

New Hanover County commissioners have approved using room-occupancy tax revenues from unincorporated portions of the county as a stopgap method to pay for dredging Carolina Beach and Mason inlets.

The room-occupancy tax in New Hanover County is six percent.  If the Carteret County voters reject the local-use sales tax referendum next month, our commissioners may have to look to New Hanover County’s example.