It's as if it's never ending. Mayor Robbie Perkins and the Greensboro Performing Arts Center Task Force are scheming to force us to build a downtown performing arts center that will bankrupt the City of Greensboro while all the while the news is filled with potential budget problems the Mayor should have been aware of:
"One change will especially be felt in areas that lost manufacturing jobs in the past few decades. That includes Greensboro, High Point and other Triad municipalities. A program where the state made payments to cities to make up for taxes that ended years earlier is ending, drying up six-figure — and in some years seven-figure — payments."
That's right, $Millions of Dollars in State funding lost. So did the Mayor know this was about to happen?
"“Best I can recall ... there was a general consensus that these folks had known about these (payments expiring), and we needed to go ahead and let it expire,” said Apodaca, R-Henderson.
“I don’t think our budget is that much better (this year).”
Somebody knew it.
Hat tip, George Hartzman
