As expected, Guilford County deputy manager Ben Brown follows manager David McNeill out the door; Commissioner Paul Gibson says county attorney Sharron Kurtz is next.
This is all happening so fast that getting lost is the way Chairman Skip Alston is talking so tough about cutting taxes:
“We just feel that we need more people with more motivation to carry out this aggressive agenda,” Alston said.
…Alston denied that Brown was forced out.
“We didn’t say anything about firing, we just expressed our concerns and he made his own decision,” Alston said.
Though it appears as though the Alston and Arnold weren’t interested in keeping McNeill or Brown.
“It’s no disrespect to them at all, but their style of leadership is not what you need in a crisis situation,” Alston said. “And we want to see who can really weather this storm.”
Expectations have officially been raised, so it will be interesting to see the results. Alston’s co-chairman Steve Arnold, who’s been talking tough about taxes forever, needs to show taxpayers what he can do, too.
