The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has announced a work session for Thursday, April 7, at 3 p.m.
The purpose is to take care of a whole lot of business now facing the county as the commissioners begin crafting the 2022-2023 Guilford County budget – which will total well north of a half a billion dollars.
The meeting will be in the Blue Room on the first floor of the Old County Court House in downtown Greensboro. It will take place immediately before the commissioners’ regular Thursday, April 7 meeting – which will involve a whole other set of issues. So the commissioners might have a very long day Thursday.
The purposes of the newly scheduled work session are as follows:
- Receive an update on the March 2022 sale of “two-thirds” bonds – bonds the county issued and sold without voter approval. The money from those bonds is being used to pay for several major construction projects including a new Guilford County Sheriff’s Department headquarters.
- Discuss plans for the Tuesday, May 17, school bond referendum. The majority of commissioners are hoping the $1.7 billion referendum passes in order to give the board an easy way to provide a lot more money for the school system.
- Review the county’s building plans
- Discuss the Board’s budget goals for the upcoming fiscal year
- Receive an update on the county’s broadband study
- Conduct any other necessary business
The meeting room will be open for in-person citizen participation, but there will also be a virtual viewing option using Zoom. To use the virtual option, use a computer, tablet or smartphone to visit https://www.zoomgov.com/j/1609512656 and follow the instructions.
If you want to use your phone to listen to the meeting, then, after registering at the site and joining the webinar, choose “Use Telephone” and call (669) 254-5252 on your phone. Enter the webinar ID 160 9512656 if you’re asked for an ID number.
The meeting will also be livestreamed on Guilford County’s Facebook page.
The agenda and other meeting materials may be found before the meeting at https://guilford.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx.
You can also contact Deputy Clerk Ariane Webb at awebb@guilfordcountync.gov with any questions.
Two-thirds bonds. A govt finesse. What the Sheriff’s Dept really needs are lot more competent and well-trained officers. Triple what they got now. And pay them well.
And these clowns want us to vote for up two Billion dollars that we and our descendants will be repaying forever. They want to do it now, before they may lose control later this year. Buy as many votes as they can. Anyone for votes for all this de facto extortion (taxation), is not our friend. They want stuff that we have to pay for.
A Billion here, and billion there; first thing we’ll be talking about real money.
Not just NO but HELL No to all bonds not until people who are responsible are elected.
Sounds like a major piss away and waste tax dollars .
Bond, budget, and piffle.
Just another plan by the Fems to TAX the CRAP out of ALL Guilford County people Let’s stop it at the next election.Shut it down Completely,we have done it in the past let’s do it again.Just to stick it to SKIP one more time.