The City of Greensboro has begun fulfilling one of the goals of the massive increase in taxes in the 2022-2023 budget – increasing the number of bureaucrats at city hall.
On Wednesday, July 27, Greensboro announced that it had hired Latoya Caesar-Crawford as the city’s first intergovernmental relations manager.
Ceasar-Crawford, who was employed by the Guilford County Schools as Greensboro College Middle College principal, according to the press release, “will foster productive relationships with community stakeholders and elected officials, as well as being the liason for federal and state lobbying efforts on behalf of the City.”
Greensboro currently contracts with a firm in Raleigh to lobby the state legislature on behalf of the city. Even with a paid lobbyist, the liberal Democratic City Council has not had much success lobbying for bills before the state legislature with a conservative Republican majority.
In the past the city attorney has been in charge of the lobbying efforts for the city.
City Manager Tai Jaiyeoba in a press release said, “Greensboro will benefit greatly from Caesar-Crawford’s ability to convene community leaders on matters of policy and decision-making, an area in which she is well versed. This designation is critical to promote synergy, while aligning and advancing the City’s legislative priorities with our local partners and at the federal, state, and regional levels.”
According to the press release most of Caesar-Crawford’s professional experience has been in education. The press release states, “She was director of equity and engagement for Iredell-Statesville Schools and the director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the Mooresville Graded School District. Additionally, she served the New York City Department of Education, Charlotte-Mecklenburg school and KIPP NC, a network of public charter schools.”
Caesar-Crawford, who will begin work for the City of Greensboro on Aug. 1, was also the founder and director of Partnership for Equity in Statesville.
Yeah, how Progressives spend a lottery win. Expect a commissioner of social justice, and “zhe’s” assistant, to be appointed on Monday.
‘Hired’ is being very generous for this particular position along with the managers chief of staff both of which were both appointed and were never advertised or interviewed competitively. These 2 ladies were brought from Charlotte and simply given jobs. The City is very management heavy. They need more workers and less administrators.
Wonderful hire. She’s a professional in equity and diversity. Sounds like she should be in charge of the mwbe graft program our city has. What relationships did she have with our so called city manager before now. And please don’t forget she’s a high paid black woman in a city of high paid black officials
Lol…more Greensboro equity left leaning BS.
Seems to me that if the County don’t get no satisfaction; that it would benefit us to send a white male representative, wouldn’t it? Then he can preach equity, inclusion, & diversity.
Can anyone with the city put into plain language what benefit this position will be for the tax payers of GSO? Looks like just another waste of tax payer money with little or no benefit to the tax payer. The tax payers of GSO need to start lobbying the NC Legislature to look into how tax payer money is being spent in GSO and Guilford County. If you look at donations made to city council members during the last election you will see why all zoning. requests are passed with no problem. Just look at Hoffman and the rezoning in her area and then look at who funded her reelection.
Democrat politici are the vast majority of slum lord’s! Use the govt to keep people on the teat, so the ‘milk’ can flow to them. The result of about a sixty year long, failed “War on Poverty”. Actually one of three wars US,Inc is waging against We the People.
Hoffman sucks. If she cared about her constituents she would have been more informative about the Hebrew Academy.
Just what Greensboro needs more money spent on nothing
I am sure this is how the new police chief will be chosen also. That job is still not posted.
I guess the Good Ole’ Boy/Girl buddy system is alive and well under the new city manager. Hopefully, their relationship is purely professional…..
Another nonproductive hire. She will be paid a fine salary for doing nothing. Redistribution of wealth is alive and well in Greensboro. Why is Hightower, Johnson, and Wells worried about contracts for minorities when the city manager is doing a better job, highly paid positions for minorities without having to work?
This person had to be removed from a GCS school because they were so laughably incompetent, misuses of personnel and funds. Bodes well for Greensboro.
Speaking of diversity when was the last time the city of Greensboro filled a position with a white male ?
Another useless paper shuffler!
Greensboro elected officials should be ashamed of putting this person on payroll. Another waste of my tax money you liberal pieces of trash.
Does anyone know what the salary of this appointed Charlotte refugee is. I’m sure the good city manager is making sure she is “well” taken care of.
Oh my God…. another useless bureaucrat with a meaningless job description and a big fat salary (plus Cadillac benefits, natch).
Greensboro is becoming Sinecure City under our $6000 a week African socialist (and he leans towards fellow Africans apparently).
The reason that there are many more minorities hired today is because it takes ten minorities to do what one white person can and will do. Can we say lazy and not prepared for the job. Minorites only concentrate on minorities and themselves.
Every prior post sounds like a bunch of angry white supremacists who can’t stand to see intelligent, successful Black women (or men) in positions of power. People like Ceasar-Crawford makes it perfectly obvious that you whiners (and all of your kind) are no match for her. Even if you were aware of the job posting and interviewed for it on your BEST day; You STILL wouldn’t get the job because YOU can’t compete. These are the type of comments you get when the myth of white supremacy is laid bare. Go do something positive in the community instead of complaining because “a white man” didn’t get the job!
Phytolive Free, you are absolutely correct. For nearly 50 years I have played on an uneven playing ground because I’m a white male. Originally, it was blacks, then women, then gay, recently transgender. What’s next? I work in an office of over 500 employees of which 72% are black. Over half that group are related, neighbors, or in the same church. So again, you are absolutely correct, I CAN’T COMPETE.
Fortunately, I’m just a couple years away from retirement. Then I can reflect back on 50 years of being told I’m not eligible because I’m a privileged white male. No PTSD for me as I’m sure I’m not eligible for that either.
Is that why Africa’s such a success and Europe’s such a failure…?
Phytolive Free – You don’t know what you are talking about! Most WHITE folks have no problems with minorities doing well; we just don’t like positions being handed out to blacks, when there are many WHITE and OTHER MINORITY persons more qualified. Greensboro City Manager and Guilford County Superintendent of Schools (glad she is leaving) are 2 that immediately come to mind.
It seems to me that Guilford County and Greensboro look for and hire the most incompetent people they can find, from the outside, when there are many very competent employees (all races) already working within the County & City. They spend thousands of our tax dollars doing this.
Come on now. Not everyone on here is a white male. In fact, I am sometimes accused of being black myself. Was this job even posted? If so, was the selection of someone from Charlotte when the City Manager is also from Charlotte just a coincidence? Additionally, I think most of us are not complaining that she got the job, but that the position itself was created in the first place. We are in a time of economic difficulty and the government has chosen to increase taxes, increase spending, and create new positions for even more increased spending. Not a good plan.
The government needs to get back to basics and stop wasting my money on a bunch of fluff.
This is for P Free. I’ll bet you don’t own any property in Guilford County or in the city of Greensboro so you pay no taxes which pays for this unnecessary position. I can’t call it a job that would mean something useful would be accomplished. I’m not sure you have a job. But just wait until the tax gravy train runs dry across our city and the nation then we’ll see how the government tit suckers that don’t know how to do anything else survive.
Rebel, how about highly paid Greensboro employees, think legal department, who do not live in Guilford County or Greensboro but are making decisions that affect residents of the city. Certain positions should require city residence so that the people holding these positions have skin in the game, such as paying property taxes.
Read these ‘get off my lawn’ comments about a new hire and smell the fear, resentment, decay and desperation as the tired old culture of while privilege and southern aristocracy dies a slow death. Most of you hate filled writers had fathers and grandfathers who were used to stringing up ‘uppity’ black folks, or denying access to bathrooms, business and capital. Now the tiniest bits of cosmic payback get your danders in a fluff. Your complaints will have merit when white people are being auctioned off in the streets, raped, bred like cattle, segregated into substandard housing, given little to no education and whipped into submission by police and ‘masters’. Your family boots have had 300 years on the necks of the African American community. Now take a tiny portion of the karma your racist ignorant inbred cracker society deserves as it disappears into historical irrelevance. The Confederacy is dead, forgotten, buried, and the glory you people seek in repressing others not like you a thing of the past. People like you make me ashamed I’m white.
My family has never done anything to black people, ever.
And we get annoyed when we see “Affirmative Action”, whether formal or informal, because we believe that discriminating between people on the basis of their race is wrong.
And you should see a psychiatrist. You have an anger problem.
Your comment is racist in itself. You seem like some one who wants to keep minorities on the plantation. You cannot assume every comment is by a white person. Some of us are concerned about how poorly the city is run and how much our taxes increased. The city manager is adding multiple positions in his office while GPD is 130 officers down. They are doing more with less so why can’t every other city department.
Signed: your former east side born and bred non white commenter.
Incompetency and corruption have brought down many governments, dynasties and empires. The US until the recent past (1960s) relied on merit for advancement. The merit system has been replaced by a system based on victimhood and political agendas. This cannot last. Rather than allowing the cream to rise to the top, the process of churning for cream has stopped. Governments, especially, do not care about merit. Unfortunately, this has extended to other institutions such as medical schools, law schools, and corporations. Would you not like to believe that the doctor who is preparing to operate was admitted to and graduated from medical school based on merit and achievements?
Greensboro’s city manager does not have an understanding of Econ 101. It would be fair to believe that the City Council did not hire him based on merit and genuine credentials. He has the mindset of a globalist. Greensboro was once a fine city but has turned into a town at the end of a dirt road. The voters who voted for the incompetent city mayors and council members are to be thanked. This has been happening for years.
P. Free’s comments about white supremacy are being used to shut down the conversation that maybe, just maybe, the new hire was based on something unrelated to merit, unrelated to city needs and more about power to make unfettered decisions based on the city manager’s own personal agenda, whatever that may be.
By the way, how do you know the comments above are from White people? Are you aware that opinions are not confined to Black and White persons? The time when the population was basically all Blacks and Whites is long gone, never to return. This will eventually have an effect on Blacks more so than Whites.
You might be right TermLimits. Perhaps the new hire from the City Manager’s previous city is quite unrelated to merit. I’m sure they knew each other in Charlotte. She’s very attractive.
All of these cushy jobs are to provide an extended “buffer” between the citizens and those who can make a decision. It is by design they hire people in dubious job roles, with good salaries, to run interference with the public so those at the top don’t have to get involved.