Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Priorities

The City of Greensboro appears to have a huge problem with priorities. George Hartzman has been working long and hard on trying to find out what the City's priorities really are. For example, when it comes to GPAC, is the goal really to build a downtown performing arts center or just to make a certain few pieces of downtown property easier to sell? And why can't they figure out things as simple as parking?

Then there's the condition of Greensboro's streets:

"Denise (Turner Roth, City Manager) responded by informing us Greensboro's roads were considered in "poor" condition, or rated "poor" or something along the lines of not in good shape.  She told us, Alex Jacobson from the Rhino was behind me, that our city's road maintenance was deprioritized in the budget to the benefit of some undefined priorities which received money and/or debt allocated elsewhere."

Could it be our streets went to hell to fund the Aquatic Center or some other elective project? 

George Hartzman is running for Mayor of Greensboro. These are the kinds of questions mayors should be asking.