Final notes
My story on Thursday's Guilford County Commissioner's meeting can be found by clicking on this link after our page updates sometime around 4 a.m. this morning.
Here are a few notes that didn't make it into today's story:
* The commissioners had a bit of a dust up over appointments to the county's Planning Board. That board has the ability to rezone property, rename streets and several other powers. Their decisions can be appealed to the commissioners, but will stand as law if unchallenged.
Commissioner Carolyn Coleman had proposed appointing Dan Reynolds, one of the board's alternate members, as a permanent member. Reynolds is from the High Point area and Coleman said the board needed a High Point representative.
That argument drew a decided grouchy retort from Chairman Bob Landreth, who said that people in unincorporated parts of the county outside the city limits should be given priority.
"To heck with Greensboro, High Point, Pleasant Garden or where ever they're from," Landreth said. "We have people in Greensboro making decisions about how they (residents of unincorporated areas) can use their land."
The commissioners voted to delay the Planning Board appointments until October.
* The commissioners cancelled their first meeting in November due to what County Manager Willie Best described as a light agenda.
"What's wrong with a light agenda," asked Commissioner Melvin "Skip" Alston. The consensus from the other commissioners seemed to be that nothing was wrong with a light agenda, but no agenda was even better.
So mark the Nov. 4 commissioners meeting off your calendar. That's two days after the Nov. 2 general election.
* Commissioner Jeff Thigpen was not present in body Thursday night but still made several key votes via phone, his wishes relayed by Commissioners Mary Rakestraw and Landreth.
The practice is allowed by North Carolina law and not infrequent among the commissioners. But during a period of time reserved for comments from the commissioners, Yow offered a motion to restrict the practice unless there was not a quorum present in the commissioners' chambers.
Landreth shot down the motion, saying that new motions were not allowed during the "Commissioners Business" section of the agenda.
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