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Divided board digs for answers on schools deal.
Byline: Carrie Levine, Ann Doss Helms Peter Smolowitz
Jul. 20--Mecklenburg County commissioners scrambled to salvage a $172 million school construction plan Wednesday but remained split on how best to craft a compromise. A day after the board unexpectedly rejected the plan, members, reeling from the contentious votes and accusing each other of election-year politics, floated solutions.
In one alternative, board Republicans said they would offer support for a 2007 bond referendum if Democrats back some changes to the proposal.
In another, three Democrats said the original plan should go before voters this November. Former N.C. Gov. Jim Martin, a Republican who headed the committee that crafted the failed plan, said he was encouraged by the county Republicans' offer to compromise. "It's the first sign, at least since yesterday, that things might be worked out," he…
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