Commissioners skeptical about merging depts. with Greensboro
If it’s not broke, why fix it?
That was the consensus Thursday when Guilford County’s Board of Commissioners heard proposals for merging the county’s planning department with Greensboro’s and bringing the county’s human services under one organization.
The sticking point: neither change is likely to save money or improve efficiency.
“What’s the point?” said Commissioner Bruce Davis. “I was ready to hear the arguments, but once they said there were no cost savings and it wouldn’t really improve the work, I just didn’t understand why we would do it.”
…“Our service isn’t a problem, we’re not saving money, and the only other thing I could see in it is getting away from the state,” Winstead said. “That doesn’t seem to be a problem either.”
“I think we can probably improve what we’ve got right now without necessarily having to go all the way to merging those departments,” said Commissioner Kirk Perkins.
In the end the commissioners agreed to consider the merger, but many said it might be better to concentrate on making the existing system more user-friendly.
Joe Killian
Greensboro News and Record, January 8, 2010
1/19/10
Why would Marlene Sanford express adamant opposition to merging departments in private meetings with at least one 2009 City Council Candidate, and express a dissimilar demeanor before Guilford County's Commissioners?
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She knew the positions of the commissioners and what they would say before they said it.
I wonder how many people know our local governments are controlled by an oligarchy.
Rhino probably won't cover it.
News and Record will probably dilute it to incoherance.
Yes Weekly will cover it and no one will have read it.
Two or three weeks later the subject changes, and everything goes back to a controlled normal.
Remain calm, all is well.
I wonder what's on TV
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