Still looking through the batch of e-mails I got from the City of Greensboro yesterday and I found this e-mail from Mike Barber suggesting a proposed solution to panhandling problems in Greensboro:
"Finally, I understand Reno NV placed a 2 week or more wait on licensing to allow for application evaluation for panhandling licensing, and virtually eliminated what was a problem."
But not one single thing from Councilman Barber about solving the problems of over 21% poverty in Greensboro, the highest unemployment in North Carolina or Greensboro remaining the center of the 2nd hungriest metropolitan statistical area in the United States of America.
One can only assume Mr Barber would rather spend his days on the golf course than deal with Greensboro's most haunting economic development issues.
Speaking of golf, I also learned that Councilman Barber helped arrange $10,000 in 2014 City funding for the Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation, aka the Wyndham Championship via a form titled an Outside Agency Funds Request Application with the help of Greensboro Budget Director Larry Davis and that in 2013 the Wyndham Championship received $10,000, in 2012 $10,000 and in 2011, $5,000.
Weren't we told by the City of Greensboro that the Wyndham Tournament received no direct taxpayer funding? I'm almost certain that's what we were told.
Ain't it amazing what you find in City Council e-mails made possible by public records laws? It's PIRT #3971 if anyone wants to request their own disc.
