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Your tax dollars are being spent wisely

By County Manager Chris Coudriet New Hanover County’s $399 million balanced budget for Fiscal Year 2019-2020 has been adopted by the Board of Commissioners. It focuses on investments in education, … Read More »

Thank you, New Hanover County employees

By County Manager Chris Coudriet Recently, we held our fifth-annual “Reach for the Stars” Banquet, where the county recognized 232 people who received a Stellar Award over the past year … Read More »

County construction projects stay on budget & on schedule

By County Manager Chris Coudriet In any construction project, whether it’s building a new home or renovating your kitchen, it’s important to know how much things will cost. And it’s … Read More »

Hurricane Florence: Six Months Later

By County Manager Chris Coudriet It has been six months already, since Hurricane Florence made landfall in New Hanover County. This storm was unlike any other we have seen in … Read More »

The possibilities of Project Grace

By County Manager Chris Coudriet The possibilities of Project Grace are exciting. It has been over two years since we began talking about the opportunity of a public-private partnership to … Read More »

New Hanover County’s Legislative Priorities Put Residents First

By County Manager Chris Coudriet New Hanover County Commissioners have been working hard to prioritize and advocate for our county’s local legislative goals for 2019-20, and they have been working … Read More »

One Thousand, Five Hundred and Ten

By County Manager Chris Coudriet One thousand, five hundred and ten. That’s the number of New Hanover County employees who stayed behind, served our community, and supported our residents for … Read More »

For These Things and More, I Am Thankful

By County Manager Chris Coudriet Thankful. It’s a word most of us use around this time of year but it feels incredibly fitting for me to use it now as … Read More »

Resiliency is Key to Economic Recovery After Florence

By County Manager Chris Coudriet New Hanover County experienced significant impacts from Hurricane Florence. The preliminary damage assessment across the county is more than $450 million in real and personal … Read More »

Lessons Learned from a False Alarm

By County Manager Chris Coudriet You may have heard about New Hanover County Government Center’s inadvertent emergency alert that happened on Aug. 1. The alert was treated as a real … Read More »