Guilford County Commissioners, "have collectively lost their minds," according to John Hammer, editor of the Rhinoceros Times. In a March 15, 2012 article entitled, Commissioners Are Off Their Rockers, Hammer provides an inventory list of “behavior that is completely irrational. The list could be much longer. However, even the Rhino has space limitations.
From the article...
“But the one that takes the cake, the proof that the commissioners have collectively lost their minds, is that they can't for the life of themselves figure out where the people who work at the new $100 million dollar jail are going to park. Imagine for a moment that instead of a jail this was a high school and the Guilford County Board of Education was going to open a $100 million high school in a couple of months and hadn't built a single parking space. Would anyone think this was normal? Can you imagine the public outcry from the teachers, parents and students if there was no parking for a new high school that was about to open? Or imagine that the city builds a beautiful new library and it's going to open without any parking being provided for employees or patrons. “
The inability of a Board run by Skip Alston, Paul Gibson, and Kirk Perkins to make rational decisions is cost all of Guilford County, money, and our future. It is time for these three Commissioners to go. And we have our chance this year.
More from John, ....
“If the majority of the commissioners were still rational beings, the parking deck would be finished and waiting for customers. But Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston says that the county-owned parking lot across the street from the jail is "off the table" for jail parking. The reason is because the Bryan Family YMCA insists that the county provide the facility with parking.
“This is insane. The county does not provide businesses – nonprofit or otherwise – with parking anywhere in Guilford County, much less in downtown Greensboro where parking is at a premium.
“The story is that when the commissioners discussed using the county-owned parking lot for county parking, the head of the Bryan Foundation, Jim Melvin, appeared in the county offices. Shortly after that Alston took it off the table. Honest people swear that is true off the record, but nobody is saying it is true on the record.”
Read the full article here.