Property taxes will go up regardless...so plan on that. As for county workers...sorry, I cry no real tears for you. You get more than two personal days off a year, you get holiday after holiday off...even ones that are not even real holidays, and you get benefits out the ying yang. I have a relative that works for the county so sorry..don't try to pull the wool over everyones eyes. We as North Carolina and New Hanover County residents have to live within our budgeted means, and if that means doing without, we just do without. Why can't the county and state do the same. Quit taxing us to death so we can live indoors too.