Two years might seem like a long time to make plans, but when it involves constructing a new building and moving the county’s mental health services to a new location, it means starting to look for a new location right away. That’s is why Guilford County commissioners and county staff, behind the scenes, are looking at big plans for mental health services in the county two years from now.
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Sometimes the Guilford County commissioners get treated like VIPs, but recently some of them have clearly felt like second-class citizens when it comes to a major new school facilities study.
Several commissioners said that, even though Guilford County paid for half of the study from Tallahassee-based MGT Consulting Group, the county commissioners haven’t been granted the same access to the results as school officials.
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The League of Women Voters of the Piedmont Triad held a forum for state legislative candidates, but the league only calls candidates to the podium if both candidates in a race are present, so this forum was mostly for candidates for the state House, since in only one of the races for the state Senate were both candidates present.
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Guilford County Sheriff BJ Barnes isn’t only in a campaign to win reelection – he’s now also in campaign to save an old jail renovation project he wants badly. This week, Barnes has been trying to get the nine Guilford County commissioners to proceed with a $17.3 million renovation of the old jail in downtown Greensboro in order to move his administrative offices into the revamped building.
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All 126 schools in the Guilford County school system opened on time Monday, Oct. 15, despite the fact that as of 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, 12 Guilford County public schools were still without power.
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