For Christmas, Guilford County Manager Mike Halford may be asking Santa for more office space on the second floor of the Old Guilford County Court House.
On Monday, Nov. 15, the county announced that it had hired not one, but two, new assistant county managers – Erris Dunston, a city administrator from Wilmington, and Victor Isler, the social services director from Forsyth County.
At times in the past, Guilford County government has gotten by without even having one assistant county manager – however, the latest hirings bring the number to three. The two new assistant county managers join Assistant County Manager Jason Jones, who was hired in March of this year to lead the county’s “Quality Government” efforts.
The selection of Dunston and Victor came after what county officials say was an extensive national search.
Dunston worked previously as an “Assistant to the City Manager for Economic Development / LGBTQIA Liaison” in Wilmington.
Isler had been leading the Department of Social Services in Forsyth County as well as handling other duties.
Dunston will be overseeing Guilford County’s “Strong Community” initiatives, while Isler will oversee something that the county is calling its’ “Successful People” effort. Those interesting program titles are new to Guilford County government just like the people who’ll be leading them.
A statement from Halford in the November 15 press release provided insight into why Halford thinks three’s a charm when it comes to assistant managers.
“Their combined experience will significantly supplement and bring new perspectives to our existing leadership,” Halford stated. “My intentions behind a three assistant county manager system are to provide strategic alignment, consistency, and support among departments. This structure is consistent with those taken by similarly sized organizations and will allow the county to address its priorities and goals much more effectively, more quickly, and with more impact.”
Halford’s first day as Guilford County Manager was in early January of this year after former County Manager Marty Lawing stepped down just before Christmas with some encouragement from Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston. This year, Halford has been restructuring some parts of the county’s government.
According to the Monday press release, Halford has “been working to reorganize the County’s executive leadership team to offer more focused oversight to further the County’s initiatives.”
Dunston has already begun working for Guilford County. Isler will begin on Monday, Nov. 22.
Typical democrat government create more jobs at the top spend as much of the taxpayer money as possible Election’s can’t get here soon enough.
Good luck getting rid of these socialists finding places to put all this govt (our) cash to work in order to feather-bed their phoney-baloney jobs.
How many hours does it take to do both jobs that have been created for these two employees. Couldn’t one person do both jobs. Is it possible that there will ever be a decision made in Greensboro that will benefit the citizens with a conservative way of using “OUR” tax dollars. Will there ever be a chance that a positive way of thinking for all the citizens will be considered. Greensboro can do so much better!!!!!!!!!
Let’s add more overhead and let them help us dream up more things to do that don’t help the people.
How many other cities the size of Greensboro have four members of a management team?
They were not hired by Greensboro The jobs were created by skip and the commissioners of Guilford county. More ways the democrats can spend taxpayers money
I thought I had seen everything in terms of titles, but . . . . .LGBTQIA Liaison is a new one that takes the cake.
Not in the Woke world we live in. As Ms. Gump said STUPID is as STUPID does.