Nuggets of News from Council
Our publishing software crashed late Monday night, forcing editors to trim today's printed story about the Greensboro City Council meeting. A few things to note that didn't make the driveway dead tree:
1.) Assistant City Manager Bob Morgan updated council on Barber Park, a southeast Greensboro park closed in June when work crews building a parking lot unearthed dark soil holding old petroleum products, chromium, mercury and lead. Soil samples tested negative for the more harmful variations of the chromium and, because of where the dirt was buried, had posed no public health threat to visitors. The city, which got the test results back late last week, asked the toxicologist to sample additional sites in the park before declaring the place safe for the public. "This is very good news. What we found doesn't seem to be of any concern from a public health standpoint," Morgan said. "We are hopeful that we may be able to open the park in phases as we get clearance from our consultants."
Here's a link to Margaret Banks' most recent story.
2.) Council voted 9-0 to fund its share of the Randleman Water Treatment Plant. Six local governments, including High Point and Jamestown, partnered in the 1980s to build the Randleman dam and water facilities to serve their respective residents. By signing the agreement, council committed Greensboro to pay its share of the joint debt for construction costs. There is no immediate impact on the city budget.
3.) Council also voted 9-0 to adopt guidelines for developers who want to build projects with help of economic incentives from the city. The guidelines outline for what type of assistance the city will provide money and where a developer must build to receive funding from an economic development bond passed by voters last year. Final approval for any project rests with council and is not guaranteed even if a developer meets all criteria outlined in the guidelines.
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