Did you vote like your commissioner?
Cross-posted from Inside Scoop
We caught up with Guilford County commissioners this week to see what they think now that the dust has settled on the May 6 votes for $671 million in bonds and the quarter-cent sales tax.
Guilford voters approved all the bonds except for the $20.2 million for parks. And they refused the sales tax.
But few commissioners managed to hold closely to what the voters wanted in their districts.
Below is the list of what commissioners said they wanted before the election, which excludes at-large commissioners John Parks and Paul Gibson:
District 1, Bruce Davis: No to the $412 million school bond and jail bond. Yes to other bonds. Undecided on sales tax.
District 2, Steve Arnold: Yes on Eastern Guilford. No to the other bonds and sales tax.
District 3, Linda Shaw: Yes to bonds and sales tax.
District 4, Kirk Perkins: Yes on bonds and the sales tax.
District 5, Billy Yow: Yes on the jail bond and sales tax. No for the other bonds.
District 6, Kay Cashion: Yes on bonds and the sales tax.
District 7, Mike Winstead: Refused to give his position on the bonds or sales tax.
District 8, Melvin “Skip” Alston: Yes to Eastern Guilford. No to the other bonds and sales tax.
District 9, Carolyn Coleman: Did not comment.
