The proud, the few, the voters in the Greensboro City Council election finally have the opportunity to cast their ballots.
Early voting in the Tuesday, July 26 City Council election, originally scheduled for Nov. 2, 2021, opened at 8 a.m. on Thursday, July 7 at six locations in Greensboro and ends on July 23. The complete schedule for early voting times and locations can be found here: Early Voting.
Voter turnout in this election is expected to be extremely light and reports from the early voting locations indicate extremely light may be an understatement. A poll worker said that Thursday morning at the early voting location they were working, a grand total of three voters, showed up Thursday before noon.
The first and last day of early voting usually have the heaviest turnout.
Those who do choose to vote will be able to vote for mayor, three at-large city councilmembers and the city councilmember for their district.
Also on the ballot are five bond referendums. Usually there is a major marketing campaign to push bond referendums, but these city bond referendums have received little publicity either for or against.
The bonds at the end of the ballot are:
Greensboro City Housing Bonds – $30 million
Greensboro City Parks and Recreation Bonds – $70 million
Greensboro City Firefighting Bonds – $14 million
Greensboro City Law Enforcement Facilities Bonds – $6 million
Greensboro City Transportation Bonds – $15 million
The $70 million in Parks and Recreation Bonds are unusual in that the City Council has stated its intention is to spend $50 million of the $70 million in bond money on combining the Windsor Recreation Center and the Vance Chavis branch library into one facility. The estimated cost of that facility in 2021 when the City Council voted to place the bonds on the ballot was $70 million. With inflation and the increase in construction costs that estimate has to be considered outdated.
Time to vote out the current mayor, mayoral candidate and the entire city council. We deserve a new beginning from those who are not cost conscientious, do not support our law enforcement and will not give away our tax dollars to “ friends of the council “, past council members who state they are not accountable to the tax payers of our city.
District 5 can start by voting in Tony Wilkins!
Write in vote for Conservative mayor candidate Chris Meadows. With the vote being split between
two liberals we could have a chance for a conservative mayor! Please if you are conservative
write-in his name and vote for CHRIS MEADOWS!!!
Will the Rhino Times be making any recommendations for this election?
Yes. The endorsements should be posted on Monday, July 11.
OK. ..here’s your chance to do something good and correct some wrongs!!! PLEASE GO VOTE!!
Voted today at the Leonard Center, 12 poll workers and just me voting. We are still on the scanned paper ballot but it does make it easy for a write in vote for Mayor. I am proud to say I voted for change. Hope Tony, Katie and Chris have a seat on the council. Hated I could not vote for Thurston Reeder too. A BIG NO on the bonds, if the city council would pass a legitimate budget… cut out the pork then the tax payers could afford some of these bonds.
On the at-large only voted for Katie Rossabi, wouldn’t it be great if she not only had a seat on the council but had enough votes to be Mayor Pro Tem!
I’m sure chris & friends already have a box of mail in ballots stacked up & ready to go. Gotta make sure all the dead, elderly, infirmed, & convicted felons rise to the occasion & check all those blue boxes.
I doubt that. Write-in candidate Chris Meadows is not a Democrat. Sorry, not chris, what you describe is the purview of Democrates. Democrates’ moto is “win at all costs.” By the way, not chris, what skin do you have in the election? Sounds like you have a lot of knowledge about mail-in ballots, dead voters and convicted felons.
You can surely count on some funny business!
I am not laughing.
I remind you again that I am NOT republican and therefore respect a free and fare election. FYI, I do not live in the City hence I rarely comment on city elections.
But I do love you were thinking of me!
Vote early, vote often.