See if anything jumps out at you in this Rhino account of troubles within Greensboro Parks & Recreation:
The Parks and Recreation Department was hit with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charges filed in November 2007. Then, on Nov. 24, 2008, a year after the original EEOC charge was filed, the eight employees who had filed the charge, sent a letter to Mayor Yvonne Johnson about their concerns…
City Attorney Terry Wood said he didn’t know anything about an EEOC complaint filed by Parks and Recreation Department employees, but he added that he wouldn’t necessarily know about it if it had been filed recently. He said there were several ways the city could be notified, and the legal department was not necessarily the first department to get the word.
That’s right, Greensboro’s city attorney said he knows nothing about an EEOC complaint filed by city employees. Yes, John Hammer does say go on to say that, given the turnover in the city’s legal department, “it is certainly possible that the new city attorney was not informed of all the issues the legal department was handling during the time it appeared no one was in charge.” But it’s still pretty incredible, isn’t it?
Given, too, the legal department’s less than impressive showing in court a couple of weeks ago, we yet again are left to wonder just what’s going on down at Melvin Municipal.
Apparently the lawyers weren’t doing too good over in county government, either.
