It's Coleman
Guilford County commissioners have elected Carolyn Coleman as their chairwoman for the next year. She's the first black woman to hold the post. You'll find more in today's paper.
In other business that didn't make the deadwood edition, commissioners:
- Rejected a plan to ask the state legislature to establish term limits for county commissioners. Legal experts, citing a 1992 Supreme Court ruling, have said such a law would be unconstitutional.
- Approved spending about $1 million on short-term fixes to the crowding problems in the county jails. Shipping prisoners to the county prison farm and hiring more jail officers are part of the plan. The money will come from savings and an account called the Inmate Welfare Fund, which is funded by prisoners' phone calls home and sales at the jail canteens.