At 6:12 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba submitted his letter of resignation while the City Council was meeting and listening to speakers from the floor.
The letter of resignation states:
“After much contemplation, I have decided to resign my position as City Manager with the City of Greensboro, effective immediately. I value the leadership you have given me. And sincerely appreciate the support you have given me over the last two years. I wish the City of Greensboro continued success.
“Respectfully,
“Taiwo ‘Tai’ Jaiyeoba”
The City Council met in closed session from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. but, when the meeting was called back into open session at 5:39 p.m., no comment was made about the closed session.
The meeting was called to order without anyone in the city manager’s seat. When the city manager is not available for a meeting, an assistant city manager usually sits in his place, but not at this meeting.
Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts is also not at the meeting but in his place is Chief Deputy City Attorney Tony Baker.
First honorable act by the manager in his tenure.
Great job RHINO. I am sure that of not for your great investigative journalism and persistence this would have been swept under the rug. Next question what else are they covering up? We know there was preferential treatment. Keep pushing
The manager is gone now it’s time for the mayor and Police Chief to follow along and drag Hightower,johnson, wells, thurm and anyone who voted to hire the manager or Chief.
I truly hope that this man and his family have peace. I hate this for anyone. He seems like a very smart man and hope that he moves forward in a positive direction.
We should still be able to see the video.
The Mayor, The Chief of Police and the City Attorney should follow suit.
That’s why the video is still very important.
I watched Ben Holder at the city council meeting and laughed my ass off. The gentleman after him spoke the truth about the IRC, who has a thief director, and the rest of the east side of downtown. Your decisions caused this fiasco. This city manager was never qualified to do this job. While you are at it fire all the people the city manager hired and save those salaries so you don’t have to take out a loan to buy leaf trash cans.
I just watched the full regular Council meeting for March 5. I didn’t see Ben. Can you refer a time stamp when he spoke. I would appreciate it.
He’s speaker from the floor after proclamations, some cheerleaders, and a couple of other speakers.
I’ll check it out thank you for the reply.
Why would a council person vote to pay severance to an employee that resigns before they would most likely be fired?
We need to clean house in GSO government ….Major taxpayers lost their #1 service with zero input.
Nice job RINO and even GNR questioned special treatment. RINO stay on it.
Nothing lost , but $75k plus insurance.
I don’t blame him for resigning
You’re a village idiot