After years of public comment at City Council meetings, in blog threads, e-mails, telephone calls, Facebook, Twitter and every other means possible Mayor Robbie Perkins has established yet another way to ignore public comment on local housing laws.
According to today's News & Record:
"A meeting has been scheduled for 3:30 p.m Monday in Greensboro city council chambers.
A council subcommittee will hear public comments about the city’s minimum housing code, which is meant to ensure that homes and apartments are safe."
Really, when most apartment dwellers will still be at work, unable to take time off because doing so will cause them to not have enough money to pay the rent on their substandard apartments and rentals houses. Yeah, that's giving voice to the people alright.
Isn't it funny how when the Mayor is trying to sell a community on an idea he has a community summit in that community but when it involves protecting his on business interests it's downtown at a time when most folks can't be there? Coincidence? Hardly.
The Mayor knows what the public wants, he's simply trying to avoid doing it.
According to today's News & Record:
"A meeting has been scheduled for 3:30 p.m Monday in Greensboro city council chambers.
A council subcommittee will hear public comments about the city’s minimum housing code, which is meant to ensure that homes and apartments are safe."
Really, when most apartment dwellers will still be at work, unable to take time off because doing so will cause them to not have enough money to pay the rent on their substandard apartments and rentals houses. Yeah, that's giving voice to the people alright.
Isn't it funny how when the Mayor is trying to sell a community on an idea he has a community summit in that community but when it involves protecting his on business interests it's downtown at a time when most folks can't be there? Coincidence? Hardly.
The Mayor knows what the public wants, he's simply trying to avoid doing it.
