My latest letter to the powers that be:
Dear Madam City Manager and City Council,
From ONE+one GSO
"From the Dgi Statement of activities for the two months ended 8/31/2012...park income $199,455...park expenses $172,305...who got the difference?
April Harris of action Greensboro refused to provide the publicly funded service contract she/action Greensboro/center city park llc has with dgi regarding the maintenance of the park..she was a little put out with my insistence and laughed when I asked if Ed Kitchen would release it...he then said it was not a public record matter...(I disagree)..."
Could it be Action Greensboro, a publicly funded agency, is somehow exempt from public records requests? How is that possible? Surely the City of Greensboro, who funds Action Greensboro with taxpayer dollars, has the right and responsibility to make public these and other documents sush as the meeting minutes that gave Dabney Sanders the authority to hire Lomax Construction for work on the Downtown Greenway project.
Surely, over a month is long enough for Dabney to have been able to manufacture meeting minutes, right?
The very idea that publicly funded agencies are somehow exempt from public records laws goes against everything that democracy stands for and leads us one step closer to fashism-- was this the goal of public-private partnerships in the first place? Or simply an unintended consequence? Either way, as a public servant it is your responsibility to guard against such malfeasance. Will you or will you not make these records public?
Thank you -Billy Jones, Official Spokestroll and the members of Real Progress For Greensboro
