High-falutin' commissioners
Thursday was the Board of Commissioners' night to commemorate High Point's sesquicentennial, and they did it by holding a meeting in the High Point City Council chambers.
There's no live TV for High Point meetings, but the commissioners show their meetings live.
Not Thursday. The earliest TV sighting of the commissioners' came Friday morning, because the county had to bring lights and cameras to the meeting. Danged technology.
Wired up and ready to go, the board got on with recognizing High Point's 150th birthday in 2009.
Mayor Becky Smothers, known for wry humor and a quick wit, accepted the proclamation and told the county to remember the city 'come budget season as she shook hands with the 11 commissioners. Or at least the ones she didn't see already.
"I've already shaken your hand," she told several board members and she went down the line. Then she got to the end, to get the resolution.
"Y’all frame it and everything," she said.
Fancy.
While High Point keeps it simple - there's no TV cameras in the city hall of the state's 8th largest city - they also don't offer Wifi. Which really makes it hard for Scoop to update its Facebook page and Twitter the commissioners' away game.
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triadwatch is on this one about televising High Point City Council meetings, it was asked at a guilford unity effort forum to the ward 6 and ward 2 candidates about televising the meetings and 100% said yes. It is time to get in to the 21st century not the bedrock era.
Posted on October 3, 2008 5:17 PM