Tuesday, August 27, 2019

A-B Tech is $500,000 in the red. Layoffs may come if the county doesn't help. - Jennifer Bowman, Asheville Citizen Times

Some A-B Tech employees could face layoffs if county government doesn't help address a roughly $500,000 budget deficit, college administrators warned. The shortfall comes after commissioners in June voted to give Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College some $6.8 million for its annual contribution, about $750,000 less than what it requested — and after negotiations between the two entities on how to handle long-misspent tax revenue that was intended to fund campus construction.

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2019/08/18/ab-tech-college-layoffs-possible-amid-deficit-buncombe-county-commissioners-sales-tax/1966897001/