WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – The New Hanover County ABC Board unanimously approved its 2024-2025 budget on Thursday, June 20.
The budget includes $74.3 million from various sales, interest and receipts, which is a decrease of $2 million from the previous budget.
The budget includes employee cost of living pay increases budgeted at 3 percent, along with employee pay increases budgeted at 2 percent based on merit, $25,000 for security camera upgrades, computer upgrades to registers and inventory scanners for $120,000 and quarterly profit distributions to beneficiaries totaling $4.2 million.
$760,000 will be distributed to alcohol education and rehabilitation, and another $539,340 will go to alcohol law enforcement.
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