Is The City Of Greensboro Covering Up For Skip Alston?

Yesterday I posted Skip Alston's Greensboro Loans which included a check dated July 15, 2013 to pay off Mr Alston's most recent outstanding loan from the City of Greensboro. A check for  $139,529.04 which was in-fact delinquent and probably would have remained delinquent had George Hartzman not filed a public information request as follows.

"Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:19 PM
Please provide the status of any city of Greensboro loans that have anything to do with skip Alston."

George continues:

"Someone asked for the payoff amount on July 2.
As of July 1, it looks like he defaulted on the loan.
He got a great interest rate.
Matheny, Perkins, Kee, Vaughan and Bellamy voted for it.
Did they get the Simkins PAC endorsement?"

Then later followed up with:

"from: George Hartzman to: Inforequests Email
date: Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:54 PM
subject: Re: Public Information Request

"Please provide a list of the economic development projects proposed for City Council consideration since the current elected members came into office, including which council members advocated/asked that the projects be considered.

Still have no word on Skip Alston's loan.
Still have no word on Grassroots back taxes."

Yesterday The City of Greensboro replied with the following:

Hello Mr. Hartzman:
Please find attached the documents you requested regarding loans between Skip Alston and the City of Greensboro.
This should complete your public information request.
Sincerely, "

And included the files linked here.

So now we have 2 questions:

1. Did the City of Greensboro deliberately delay answering a public information request to give Skip Alston more time to pay off a delinquent loan before the information was made public and

2. Is the City of Greensboro purposely attempting to manage Public Relations-- covering up-- for Skip Alston?



If you'd like to know more you can request the City of Greensboro give you the PIRT record for PIRT 2589. Hat tip Roch.

Update: Looking at the PIRT Record that was just provided to me in less than 4 business hours it does appear the City was deliberately dragging their feet.