John Hammer’s (unposted as yet) Rhino account of Tuesday night’s Greensboro City Council meeting focuses on council member Mike Barber’s motion to have the city pay the legal fees of former and current officers caught up in the mess left behind by former City Manager Mitchell Johnson. As you can imagine, Barber’s motion caused fellow council member Robbie Perkins to go “ballistic,” saying “it was unfair for Barber to spring the motion on the council at the end of the meeting with no warning.”
Hard to imagine, considering the fact that earlier in the meeting Barber “had his own chance to go ballistic” when Mayor Yvonne Johnson tried to spring a vote on whether or not Ulturnagen should be considered to build a “gasification plant” at the White Street landfill. I realize that’s vague language, since the definition of request for proposals is an issue in this Guarino thread on the subject. Apparently the city has issued an RFP on projects related to White Street, but Barber noted that some council members did everything they could to block that process. But then Mayor Johnson and council members Dianne Bellamy-Small and Goldie Wells suddenly wanted to rush a vote to make Ulturnagen part of the process, whatever that process is. And, as evidenced by Barber’s questioning, District 2 council candidate Jim Kee appears to be somehow involved in all of this.
This is all very interesting, and definitely something voters should keep in mind as they head to the polls on Election Day.
