Final thoughts on Thursday's County Commissioner meeting
Although the Guilford County Commissioners didn't end their meeting until about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, there was not a whole lot of - um - extra curricular activity for which the group has become infamous. Check Friday's paper or online for a full report.
Most of the time Thursday was chewed up by a zoning hearing and a hearing over whether to install water and sewer lines in the Kingsburry Estates neighborhood.
The county did not discuss plans to reorganize how they make appointments to the Planning Board, although did fill the remaining vacant seats. And aside from one of those appointments, there were no issues that prompted a great deal of disagreement between the commissioners.
For those of you keeping track of this sort of stuff, this was the commissioner's last meeting before the Nov. 2 election. The next meeting isn't scheduled until Nov. 18 and is one of two scheduled "lame duck" sessions where commissioners who are leaving the board in December will still be in power and casting votes. Those will include Mary Rakestraw, who lost her primary this summer, and Bob Landreth, who did not run for re-election.
That Nov. 18 meeting is scheduled to cover a lot of ground, including four requests for economic incentive packages, the controversial scenic corridor ordinance and possibly the evaluation of certain high-ranking county officials.