My name is Steve Tilley.

I’ve been keeping up with the light rail system that’s trying to put in Orange County, but from what I see and what I’ve read, the system is going to go from UNC to Duke and then to NCCU.  I don’t think that anybody in this room will ride that light rail system, because it’s not going to be on this side [north] of Interstate 40.  It’ll be on the other side of 40. 

This side of 40 has got to pay for it … or help pay for it.  It’s too much.  The cost is too much because in the long run as everything else that’s happened that's been passed, the taxpayer winds up footing the bill.  It’s going up.  It’ll go up sooner or later to pay for it.  Somebody has got to pay for it.  It’s either going to be in sales tax, it's going to be in property tax.  There will be a tax.  Somewhere down the line … 10 years from now … 15 years from now … there will be a tax … because there will be a cost overrun.  $ 175M or whatever they say it’s going to cost … it’ll be 10 times that, and the board [BOCC] knows it, so I don’t think we need it.