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My main concern is that Deena felt like her community voted for the bond and wasn't making money from it, but it was okay to give those contracts to someone from Atlanta since that was part of her community. I thought community meant where you lived, not what minority you were. I don't think that any one from Atlanta voted for the bond. She would rather a black owned company from out of state get the money than a local white ownded local company.

Strange, but I thought that people voted for the bond referendum because they wanted students to have school buildings in which to be educated. I must be wrong about that it appears.

Perhaps, in the future, the school board should place the appropriate stipulations of who will benefit on the bond referendum so that everyone can vote for or against them based upon what is in it for them.

No Bruce, we haven't started most of our recipes yet - been Christmas shopping all day at Concord Mills. Time to get in our blogging before cooking tomorrow and heading to a friend's house.

First of all Alan and T. Grier and his staff explained very clearly at the SB meeting a few weeks ago about bonding, the laws, etc. There are laws that must be abided when taking bids, especially bids using PUBLIC funds. You do not want to be accused of bid rigging. It was explained that the bids did go out to minority contractors. The offer was made. The reasons as to why there weren't so many African-American subs bidding was also explained by the staff.

The minority requirements were met. There were women contractors hired too. Does that not count for anything?

I personally feel strongly that we should hire from within North Carolina. The entire NC economy has suffered. We should not bring in outside contractors from another state, black, purple, polka dot, women or whatever. We should provide jobs for our own state. And Debra is right - no one from Atlanta voted for the bond. What about all the poor white people who have lost jobs? What about Hispanics who need to feed their families too?

At the last meeting, Dr. Grier mentioned that he was contacting bankers to possibly help African-Americans get loans. IMHO - Is this really his job to do this? Does this have ANYTHING to do with education? Isn't there enough work to be done to help our kids? Also, as of last week, this was not listed as one of the GOALS. The focus should be on education FIRST. Building funds, bonds, loans, etc. do not have to do with education except in saving tax payers money. We should seek the best product for the best price. There needs to be accountability in the results.

As far as "the board courted the suppport of African-Americans to get the bond passed". The board and Frank Kendall as chair sought the support of many, many groups. What about the parents in the Jamestown area who aren't getting Ragsdale and Jamestown Middle build because of cost overruns to Northern? They were promised schools too from the bond money and they were nixed completely. Do you see Northwest High getting the relief from the major overcrowding problem that they were promised? The crowded conditions there are overwhelming. Promises were made to MANY, but there is only so much money now to go around.

As Stormy said it quite well, I thought the idea of the bond referendum was because we wanted students to have school building in which to be educated. I can say that after subbing in trailers with no heat or AC at times, seeing kids walk in all kinds of weather between the 30 some trailers at Florence, seeing them huddle to find a spot in an inner hallway when there was a tornado, this is why my husband and I put up "Vote for Kids" signs and worked the polls for those bonds. It was for the CHILDREN. We never gave it a thought to who gets the building contracts. The buildings are for the children, all the children in GC who deserve a school building and a safe one. The taxpayers deserve to see their money spent wisely.

As for contractors they tend to use reliable subs whom they have worked with in the past. In the end, it is the contractor who is liable. This is how it is.

which groups are providing the taxes to pay for the bonds?

I think Deena did not vote for the school bonds in the first place.

If Deena did not vote for the school bonds why did she say her people voted for them?

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