Dear Jamiah Waterman, Interim City of Greensboro Attorney, on Robbie Perkins' Recusal Issues

Allen Johnson: "The mayor might want to step away from this"

Greensboro Mayor Robbie Perkins Recuses in '09
but Votes in '12 on Richie Rich Roy's Center Pointe

GN&R "Editorial: Too noisy to hear":
Now that Robbie and Roy didn't get away with screwing downtown business owners,
all concerned should now be civil?

Why would a letter from Center Pointe Condominium Owners Association to Greene Street Club say:

George Hartzman Linkfest on Downtown Noise

"(a) ...no public servant...authorized to perform an official action
requiring the exercise of discretion,

shall participate in an official action by the employing entity

if the public servant
...may incur a reasonably foreseeable financial benefit

...which financial benefit would impair
the public servant's independence of judgment

or from which it could reasonably be inferred

that the financial benefit
would influence the public servant's participation in the official action.

...(c) A public servant shall take appropriate steps,

...to remove himself or herself to the extent necessary,

to protect the public interest

...from any proceeding in which the public servant's impartiality
might reasonably be questioned

due to the public servant's familial, personal, or financial relationship

with a participant in the proceeding.

§ 138A‑36. Public servant participation in official actions.

"(e1) A member of the board or any other body
exercising quasi‑judicial functions
...shall not participate in or vote
on any quasi‑judicial matter in a manner
that would violate affected persons' constitutional rights
to an impartial decision maker.


Impermissible conflicts include, but are not limited to,
a member having a fixed opinion
prior to hearing the matter that is not susceptible to change,
undisclosed ex parte communications, a close familial, business,
or other associational relationship with an affected person,
or a financial interest in the outcome of the matter.


If an objection is raised to a member's participation
and that member does not recuse himself or herself,
the remaining members shall by majority vote rule on the objection.


§ 160A‑388.

"Any officer, department head or employee who has financial interest,
direct or indirect,

in any proposed contract with the city
or in a proposed sale of any land, material, supplies, or services

to the city or to a contractor supplying the city,

shall make known that interest
 and shall refrain from voting upon

or otherwise participating in the making of such contract or sale.

Any officer, department head, or employee
 who willfully conceals such a financial interest

or willfully violates the requirements of this Section

shall be guilty of malfeasance in office or position
and shall forfeit his office or position.

Violation of this Section
with the knowledge expressed or implied
of the person or corporation contracting with or making a sale to the city

shall render the contract void."

Sec. 4.131. - Conflict of interest: Greensboro Code of Ordinances, City Charter