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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

32) prohibits a local government from providing “exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges” to private individuals except “in consideration of public services.” Generally, if an act will promote the welfare of a state or a local government and its citizens, it is for a public purpose. Additionally, G.S.

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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Similarly, water systems owned by local governments are being privatized because they can't keep up with the cost of modernization and new and more stringent environmental regulation. They bid extranormally high, not on economic considerations, as a way to create a node for further operations.