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ROCKINGHAM — Officials and legal counsel from the county government and the cities of Rockingham and Hamlet will hold the first official meeting of their mediation over the county’s alleged breach of contract in mid-January 2021.
The exact date has not yet been decided, but the parties have narrowed it down to two dates in January, according to Hamlet City Manager Matthew Christian. This proposed meeting comes after months of tension that followed the county’s decision in April to switch from a system in which sales tax revenues were distributed by the state in proportion to each local government entity’s population size to one in which revenues were distributed in proportion to their ad valorem taxes levied…
