Guilford County is one of the few counties in North Carolina to have two major cities, and that means, when it comes to providing county services, there has to be two of everything so as to be convenient to both cities.
That now applies to the county’s fast-growing MWBE Department, which has been operating out of Greensboro but will be expanding its services to High Point.
The move comes largely at the behest of Vice Chair of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Carlvena Foster, who represents much of High Point and is always seeking equal service for High Point.
Foster questioned county staff about the progress of the expansion into High Point at the board’s Thursday, Feb. 15 meeting.
This week Foster told the Rhino Times: “It makes sense. We have a courthouse in High Point and Greensboro. We have a Family Justice Center in High Point and Greensboro.”
She could have continued – two jails, two Register of Deeds offices, two Tax Department offices and on and on.
The county hasn’t determined where the MWBE services will be located in High Point.
In Greensboro, department staff has moved out of county office space into the Nussbaum Center to have extra space, more parking for clients, and to be in the Center which is home to many MWBE businesses and start-ups.
Foster said that for now, the time of MWBE staff will be shared between the two cities – at first with MWBE staff members operating in High Point two or three days a week.
It’s not known where the service will be based in the county’s second largest city.
Foster said she wants to see the MWBE staff “out in the community.”
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners has put a tremendous amount of effort into its MWBE Department after years of disappointing results when it came to the number or minority and women-owned firms doing business with the county.
In January of last year, the Guilford County commissioners added five positions to the formerly two department positions – nearly tripling the size of the department in one night.
Gotta hire more EDI positions to waste tax dollars. Now 2 cities can be flushed down the toilet at the same time. Should maybe save some water, if the leaves don’t block up the system.
MWBE is nothing more than affirmative action, which has been struck down by SCOTUS. All it takes is one lawsuit against Guilford County to start the ball rolling. Isn’t it time to stop this discrimination madness? Not only is the program unconstitutional, but the administration of the affirmative action program is very, very expensive to administer and getting more so with the likes of Skip Alston. Paid for with taxpayer money.
If a lawsuit was to happen we would aggressively implement it under another name the thing is you have to have the levers of power to completely stamp it out and you don’t so be our guess. And because Whites are the minority n Greensboro we could simply argue it’s for you all!
You are one unschooled ignorant a$$
So, you think it is the name that is the problem, and by changing the name will make it legal? The MWBE is discrimination against White males. Why do members of MWBE need discrimination against White males to have a taxpayer shot at anything? What is so special about MWBE? Has there been a full audit of the results of the program? Skip Alston used the excuse that the MWBE program has not had the desired results to date as the reason for adding more county employees to the program. Does he really believe that foolish statement? MWBE is government sanctioned discrimination. You, BigCity, may like MWBE because it favors your belief that the members of MWBE need taxpayers’ help to be successful. Well, let’s have a cost-benefit analysis to make that determination. If the costs far outweigh the limited benefits, MWBE should be scrapped. Regardless, MWBE is discrimination against White males.
Any half wit with the minimal ability to type the four letter abbreviation into a Google search could easily and quickly discover the name for mwbe. I swear the demographic for the rhino must be ancient and borderline mentally challenged.
They’re pointing out a deficiency in the article, Einstein.
Spare us your gratuitous insults, Democrat Boy.
That’s rich coming you. Talk about being a spin doc.
Kindly remind us ignorant folks what MWBE stands for. I didn’t find it anywhere in the article.
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Minority and Women Business Enterprise
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The MWBE program is expanding to High Point according to the article. It was mentioned 6 times! It would be helpful to someone like me who does not know what the abbreviations stands for! It would be nice for the entire words tp be used the first time so time wouldn’t be wasted reading the entire article and still don’t know. This is very inconsiderate of those who want to read the information!
I did not know what MWBE stood for either. I believe the government should offer all the social services it can but to offer them to only a particular group in the society is discriminatory unless of course it’s for the blind or disabled and things like that which cross all racial subgroups equally
Minority and Women Business Enterprise (MWBE) is a misnomer. Skip Alston and the entire GCC know the organization exists for Blacks. Period. Skip Alston and GCC would not back an organization with taxpayer money unless Blacks are the major beneficiaries.
Why not consolidate the program and move it to Jamestown. Nah. . . .they was a separate but equal program to Greensboro.
Anybody know why we would have a court house in High Point? What is the history of that? Is there any other county that does that? It appears in Wake county, everybody from surrounding towns have to go to Raleigh to do court business. Cary is much bigger than High Point. I could see 100+ years ago when people traveled by horse and buggy it was difficult. But this is nonsense. However, Guilford County doesn’t have to earn its revenue by pleasing customers. They just keep raising taxes. Just like a monopoly, no incentive to change or improve.
Go back to the 1930s for your answer. The decision was a compromise.
Nothing more than skips RACISTS reparation bullsh$$. Get ready skip KARMA is coming and hells coming with it. Don’t forget what happened to the reverend micheal king and the anointed Dr. Spearman. Evil can only last so long. There will not be a trailer hitch on your wagon
MWBE was specifically developed because the folks included in this category either can’t, won’t, are too lazy, are inept to submit a bid for the contract. Counties and municipalities have even gone as far as going into the communities where this group resides and essentially helping them to submit a bid. Still no success. The MWBE group wants the same thing they’ve always wanted. A hand out. Something for nothing. You can rest assured that they are certainly not the best at what they do.
Some people are intelligent, industrious, and talented.
Others are stupid, lazy, and useless.
So what does this do for the city of High Point MWBE? They just hired the former director from Guilford County. How are they going to be working together