The Rhino’s John Hammer on Guilford County commissioners’ role in funding for Greensboro’s proposed aquatic center, a fact that had bypassed more than a few people:
City Manager Rashad Young said that the Board of Commissioners did have to approve the financing plan.
Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip Alston was standing in the back and was asked if the item was on the agenda for the Dec. 10 meeting of the commissioners. Alston said that it was not, but that he could place it on the agenda.
After the vote to place the items on the City Council agenda for Dec. 15, Alston came to the podium to inform the council that he had nothing to put on his agenda because the matter had not been settled, and until the City Council decided what it was going to do, the commissioners couldn’t do anything.
What was supposedly pushing the meeting, and all of these other actions, is the construction bid of $17.4 million, which is only good until Dec. 20. Young told the council that there was no guarantee the price could be held beyond that date. So with the council meeting to discuss the matter on Dec. 15, and the fact that the Board of Commissioners won’t meet again until Jan. 14, 2010, the councilmembers who are in favor of this aquatic center have gotten themselves in a real pickle.
Perhaps commissioners should —cue dramatic music ——- call a special meeting. Hammer also speculates that commissioners would shoot the plan down even if it did make on the next agenda. Then what would Zack Matheny and Robbie Perkins do?
