Buncombe County Making $15 million in Budget Cuts Midyear

https://wlos.com/news/local/buncombe-county-faces-176-million-dollar-budget-cut-affecting-all-departments-employment-housing-occupancy-sales-tax#

So Buncombe County has a $15million shortfall due to Helene, so will be cutting heavily in labor costs,m. It sounds like we are going to add to the 10k unemployed in the county by hundreds.

They mention 4% across the board cuts but somehow this translates in $5 million from education. That’s 100-120 unemployed people just from education.