What's the change in Guilford County
In the talks that we've had with Board of Commissioners Chairman Melvin "Skip" Alston, he said that there are changes coming in the county.
One, which caused deputy county manager Ben Brown to lose his job is a plan to reconfigure the county's administration to look more like Mecklenburg County, according to Alston.
Here, there's a county manager, a deputy manager, and a bunch of department heads beyond that.
In Mecklenburg county there's a manager and a team of focus areas, each with one head.
There are plenty of ways that this community could configure its government, but there could be a good amount of upheaval to go along with it. Questions for you close watchers of government:
What do you think is the best way to run things? Will it make a difference?
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