And not in a good way.
I also read with interest John Hammer’s account of Tuesday’s contentious Greensboro City Council briefing. Like Ed Cone, I was struck that the focus was not on council member Nancy Vaughan’s voting status on the White Street landfill contract —- which the N&R further explores today—– but on Mayor Bill Knight’s leadership skills, or lack thereof.
Ouch:
What followed Knight’s briefing was one of the best discussions this City Council has ever had. There was a lot of give and take; ideas on what to do about solid waste disposal were brought up and discussed. During this time Knight wandered away from the conference table to the clerk’s table and, at one point, rolled across the room in his chair to throw away a piece of trash. He spoke several times, but was not part of the discussion and said later that since this was not on the agenda he considered the meeting over.
Still, Hammer concludes that the City Council is “in a position where the only way they can put together a majority to use White Street Landfill is to offer the contract to Waste Industries, the company that Vaughan’s husband represents because Vaughan can’t vote on Waste Industries.” Any way you slice it, that’s a conflict of interest.
