The American Hebrew Academy property is properly zoned to house an Influx Care Facility to house unaccompanied children who entered the country illegally, according to the Greensboro planning department.
A letter dated Feb. 22, 2022, from Greensboro Zoning Administrator Mike Kirkman to American Hebrew Academy Associate Director Qinghua Zhao, states that the Influx Care Facility for the Office of Refugee Resettlement of the Department of Health and Human Services will be classified as an educational facility, which meets the zoning conditions for the property.
In the letter to Zhao, Kirkman states, “Based on information previously provided to the City it is my understanding you intend to operate an elementary and/or secondary school at this location for relocation of children under a contract with the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the place of the former American Hebrew Academy. This would be allowed at this location based on the following.
“Elementary and secondary school fall within the broader Educational Facilities Use Group under the LDO [Land Development Ordinance].”
The letter continues to list the setback, parking and vehicular access requirements under this proposed educational facilities use.
The American Hebrew Academy property is currently zoned Conditional District-Residential-3 and educational facilities are allowed in the R-3 zoning district.
It was recently reported that the plans to turn the American Hebrew Academy into an Influx Care Facility by the Office of Refugee Resettlement had been placed on hold while the contracts to operate the facility are worked out.
Prior to the hold being placed on the proposed facility, The Floridian reported that two companies, Deployed Resources and Deployed Services, which are owned by the same person, had received contracts to do what appeared to be some of the same work.
It has been difficult to get accurate information about what exactly the Office of Refugee Resettlement plans to do with the site of the former private boarding school.
In July, North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, along with members of Congress Ted Budd, Virginia Foxx, Dan Bishop, Richard Hudson, Patrick McHenry, Gregory Murphy and David Rouzer, sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra requesting specific information about the proposed facility.
Not sure I trust or believe this with all the money on the table and those who are pushing this waste program.
So if any non-illegal immigrant child in Greensboro would like to enroll in “school” at the AHA, how does the application process work? Asking for the lawyer friends in the area.
Since Govt funds (tax payer dollars) are being used to fund the school does not that require the school to open up admission to any student?
That’s inherently a rhetorical.
Where are they going to house 800 illegals and supervisor. Don’t think AHA ever planned for that many beds. Could we be expecting FEMA trailers? Wouldn’t that be a pretty sight? Just sayin.
“Influx Care Facility”? Don’t tell me, let me guess, that’s government double talk for an illegal immigrant holding/processing facility.
I guess we’ve moved up to the big leagues now.
No way, no how, not ever! Send them to Delaware and California for them to deal with since Biden and Pelosi just LOVE the little illegals.
Such a hateful thing to say. You can certainly have your opinion but do you have to put it that way?
Carol why not bring a dozen or more to stay at your house. And by the way I agree with Mr. Nelson
AB Nelson’s reply is the result of frustration. Do not try to cancel him for his opinion. Many share his frustration. Biden should be impeached for his refusal to follow the Constitution, which he swore allegiance to. The same constitution that every military member has sworn allegiance to; every member of Congress has sworn allegiance. Oaths do not have the same importance and obligation as oaths once had. Many view oaths today as a formality.
Let me get this straight, it’s a Chinese run facility being used to resettle illegal aliens who were trafficed over the Southern border. I wonder what the Big Guy’s percentage amounts to for this scam….
Please clarify what you mean by a Chinese-run facility. The facility is not owned by the Chinese. Where are you getting your information?
Now Greensboro is becoming a Haven for illegals by using the Hebrew School for the housing of the same. How many dollars is the federal government and the local government going to spend on this boondoggle that the average taxpayers will eventually have to foot the bill for.
All Greensboro will remember that Skip and crew campaigned for passage of the bond for the school bond . Also there were a millions of dollars already available for schools . Guess what at present the only use for the money not spent for schools was the renovation of the central office ,by the last Superintendent. I just heard that one school and I know there are others,that have air conditioning that are not working . What is wrong with our leaders at Guilford County Schools that they cannot get air working at all schools.
Maybe the board was waiting on the new Superintendent to take over for someone to start the ball rolling to began making repairs that should have begun last year. I Heard that the schools do not have the maintenance people on board to make this happen ,why not farm the job out to a local A/C repair person. This is typical Democrat run City and County ,
Just Grimsley was expecting 500 additional students this year. One IB class has 54 students. The kindergarten classes across the county are bursting at the seems because some parents held their children back during Covid and now everyone is returning to school. People in Guilford County with or without students need to wake up. Our country should be focusing on the learning loss that occurred during the last two years. The federal government knows if they keep the younger people stupid with terrible schools and dependent on government handouts they are usually easier to control. I used to work for someone like this. He actively encouraged his recruiters NOT to hire college graduates. Why? Get them hooked on overtime and have them under control.
BTW my child has never attended a Guilford County school. He has only stepped into one at a middle school basketball game. He said never again.
The silence from all levels of government about the AHA is very telling. They know the s&*% will hit the fan, crime in that area with expensive houses and taxes rates will explode, and there is no security plan. Their silence means they are complicit, do not care, and are probably receiving some promise for their district or some other benefit, especially Kathy Manning. For her I have two words.
Kathy Manning is a shill for Biden. Biden should be impeached for his failure to uphold the Constitution. Actually, it is more egregious than failure. Biden is consciously and with premeditation undermining the Constitution. Kathy Manning is his accomplice along with all the other current Democrats. America is becoming more and more a lawless society.
AHA is trying to dig itself out of a financial hole with the help of Kathy Manning. Afterall, Manning was and is a supporter of AHA. The idea of housing illegal immigrants at AHA is a bailout for AHA.
Shocking. The only reason they are trying to hire teachers for this BS is so it fits the zoning. While your kids sit on radiators or stand in the back in AP classes at Grimsley think about the luxury these ILLEGAL immigrant “children” are living and being educated so they can be reunited with “family.”
This is not a case of the government looking for a school and just happening to settle on AHA.
This is the government finding a place for an internment camp and then calling it a “school” to fit the zoning.
Kids are only being held here for two to three weeks. How much educating do we really think will be going on here?
It is a housing and redistribution facility, nothing more.
Don,
I would have to disagree with you that it will be used as an internment camp. That name implies they will be kept there for an extend period of time with no freedom of movement. This is going to be used as a government resettlement facility for illegals.
And they will go where from here?
Notice the date of Mike Kirkman’s letter, February 22, 2022. Using AHA as a holding facility for illegal migrants was in the works long before February 22, all done under radar. The AHA was created as a Jewish academy to house and educate Jewish students. The City of Greensboro is now using “Educational Facility” as an excuse to skirt zoning laws. Anyone with half a brain knows that educational use is incidental to the intent of housing illegal migrants. If AHA has lost their tax-exempt status as an educational facility, and since they are now paying property taxes on the facility as of the current year, one may surmise that AHA is no longer an “educational facility.” Therefore, Mr. Kirkman’s pronouncement that AHA is an educational facility is erroneous.
As a note, AHA did not operate as an “educational facility” as of 2019 yet paid no property taxes on the facility. If AHA was no longer operating as an “educational facility”, AHA’s tax-exempt status should have been revoked and property taxes and all other applicable taxes should have been paid but were not. Most nonprofits’ status is a license to cheat the system and cause other taxpayers to have to pick up the bill.
Don’t the Chicomms own that property? They may be the Biden’s and other Marxist Democrat’s their buds, but they are an avowed enemy of the United States of America! None dare call it Treason?!
Chinese do not own AHA.
Hence, the reason why Democrat supporters and office holders are the biggest slumlords of all!!!
Govt graft, I think is the name I’m looking for.
Well they must have got the contracts worked out because I see multiple flights landing at PTI from Laredo in the cover of darkness at 3am. While you were sleeping…
Ran across this: https://floridianpress.com/2022/07/beijing-based-education-company-likely-cashing-in-on-u-s-border-crisis/
Hence, the reason why Democrat supporters and office holders are the biggest slumlords of all!!!
Govt graft, I think is the name I’m looking for. Thanks Mongo for this link!
Elementary and/or secondary school. Oh dear, I hope it is one or the other. Kindergarteners and 18-year old’s living in the same facility? This has scandal and disaster for the young one’s all over it who have already been through so much. Some immigrant adults are claiming to be teenage babes pure as the snow. No ID’s. No birth certificates. Small in stature. How dare we doubt them? This is not fox in the henhouse scenario. This is a wolf in with the baby chicks. Oh well, if it has the Skip’s blessing, it must be fine. (yes, that is sarcasm)
This has disaster and unforeseen consequences written all over it. I guess there were no facilities in Beverly Hills or the Hamptons.
Hence, the reason why Democrat supporters and office holders are the biggest slumlords of all!!!
Govt graft, I think is the name I’m looking for. Thanks Mongo for this link!
This was done under the table while asking us for for our schools. I did my part on election day to change the mayor. Fell short bc of name recognition. Wake up greensboro! We need change and transparency.
Sharon, I believe from your comment that you voted for the write-in candidate. Thank you for that. You now have the privilege to criticize the mayor to your heart’s content.
AHA closed as a school in 2019. There were plans of some sort to reopen the school in 2020 but that did not happen. Since the school has been closed since 2019, why would AHA apply for and be approved for a $743,059 PPP loan from the federal government? The loan was approved May 1, 2020, AND $752,464 was forgiven on August 13, 2021. If the school was closed in 2019, why was the $743,059 loan needed and approved? What expenses did AHA have during Covid, AHA was not in operation?
Someone is making a lot of money for AHA from the pockets of taxpayers. Kathy Manning needs to provide answers as well as the members of the AHA board. How could anyone vote for shyster Manning?
American Hebrew Academy (AHA) was approved for a second-round loan of $753,059 (same amount as first-round) on February 18, 2021, AND $612,363 was forgiven on March 3, 2022. March 3 was after Kathy Manning, Skip Alston, Nancy Vaughn and AHA were already negotiating a $50M deal with the federal government to house illegal aliens in Greensboro. All these players are dishonest and corrupt in their presentation for the purpose of using AHA. It is not for education. Whatever will occur at AHA, education is incidental, not the actual intended use. Therefore, the use of AHA to house illegal aliens violates zoning, and it is all a ruse by the perpetrators of this scheme.
Again, I ask. How did AHA qualify for a first-round and then a second-round PPP Covid loans (our money) that were then forgiven when AHA was not in operation at the time of the loans, $1,506,118.
An injunction on housing illegal aliens at AHA should be imposed until Greensboro can prove that housing the illegal aliens at AHA is for the purpose of education and, therefore, meets zoning requirements.