Email [email protected], or call 1-919-733-3451 to voice your opinion. Background
Shared benefit arrangements are fairly common in government in this difficult economic time. As budgets at the local level shrink, government loses the ability to contract with private industry. One possible solution is shared benefit, or contingency arrangements. If the private contractor can create value for
the government through increased efficiencies and cost savings, the contractor is paid on a portion of the savings. This replaces fees that the government would traditionally pay for the service rendered. Recently , the NC House introduced HB 462, a bill that interferes with private industry’s ability to partner with government – it passed overwhelmingly out of the House. When the bill reached the NC Senate, it was gutted completely and replaced with language designed to eliminate contingency fee arrangements in NC altogether – crippling private industry’s ability to contract with local and state governments. This is a play by big business (remain unnamed) to eliminate or substantially reduce their tax burden – shifting the burden to us – residential and small business owners – it is bad policy and bad for North Carolina. Your home County, Mecklenburg, currently utilizes these services and to date has raised almost $27,000,000 in additional revenue that it would not have received if not for contingency arrangements. Please contact your representative:
Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House
1-919-733-3451 (office)
[email protected]
