Despite economic upheaval, massive job losses, business shutdowns, and uncertainty in the investment market throughout 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the state pension plan achieved a record $114.9 billion valuation entering 2021.
With an eye toward the magnitude of the state’s combined unfunded pension and retiree health care costs, State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, said it is imperative the state’s capacity for future borrowing is accurately calculated to avoid fiscal strain and budget predicaments.
(Raleigh, N.C.) – CaroMont Health Inc. received an important approval this week to move forward with its plan to build and equip a four-story patient hospital care tower in Gastonia.
State Treasurer Dale R. Folwell, CPA, today asked the owners of the ferry system between Southport, N.C., and Bald Head Island to give the entire system to the Village of Bald Head Island or the Bald Head Island Transportation Authority (BHITA).