LATOYA BERNICE GATHERS: These are the three concerns I would prioritize: PORTIA SHIPMAN: One of Greensboros most prominent issues is racial inequity and justice inequality, access to resources, and better opportunities. Justin Outling for Greensboro Mayor Sign up for weekly updates and an insider's look at our campaign for Greensboro's future. I believe we have better choices. 21-2-134. Withthisgrowth, it is inevitablewewillalso experience problems, coupled with national economic and social issues. Most candidates stick to their own race during a campaign, but Robert has used his campaign to attack DGI President and District 3 City Council candidate Zack Matheny. The new online platform allows readers to connect and interact with each other as well as the journalists. It was a tragedy that should have never happened. I understand the balance of investing for the future and making fiscally sound decisions. Petty, who has been involved with the Green Party, Guilford County Environmental Coalition and Democracy Greensboro, among other groups, has been an outspoken advocate in the case of a homeless Black man who died three years ago after being hogtied by police. I have decided to instead support Outling. I am so disillusioned with the leaders of Greensboro that I will do one of two things. List of Candidates Filed for 2022 Election Cycle May 17, 2022 Primary (Most recently posted 03/04/2022 at 12:15 p.m. at the Close of Filing) July 26, 2022 Municipal General Election (voting applies to Greensboro City Residents Only) November 8, 2022 General Election (Most recently posted 7/17/2022 at 3:30 p.m.) Outling for mayor.nope, not a wise choice at all.nor is Nancy. Box Address City of Greensboro 212 N Main St Greensboro, GA 30642 706-453-7967 706-453-2912 fax News Greensboro designated as a Georgia Exceptional Main Street- (GEMS) . Evan -Metro 911 center is run by the city not the county. Your email address will not be published. sales@rhinotimes.com, Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress, Former County Commissioner Steve Arnold Enters District 2 Commissioners Race, Next Countywide Revaluation May Be Here Sooner Than You Think. Several NC agencies have starting pay over $50,000 with a take home car program fully implemented and numerous other benefits such as hiring bonuses, and longevity pay, which GPD does not offer thanks to your councilmembers, Outling included, failing to offer it up. In Eugene, Oregon, where the program started, they had 24,000 CAHOOTS calls and only needed police backup 150 times. Any race with more than three candidates is required to winnow down to a final two or six if you are talking double the number required to fill the at-large seats. Greensboro, NC 27429, Advertising Our parks, trails, venues, entertainment, businesses and restaurants are top notch and I wish that every resident is able to enjoy them! Box 9023 We must establish creative solutions to increase density, partner with developers to identify city policies that add unnecessary expenses to the development process and create a land banking program to push back against gentrification. Bellamy-Small, who is a Guilford County Board of Education member, joins 46 other candidates who will be considered Tuesday at a special meeting of the Greensboro City Council. There were no answers from the three candidates for District 1, although incumbent Sharon Hightower did respond to the email to say she wouldnt be participating. If you dont vote, you have no right to complain about who ends up in office, and you deserve whatever you get over the next election cycle. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Now he wants to do both! We will need to feed and house people. However, the bad ones make it hard on those who genuinely care. LATOYA BERNICE GATHERS: I am running because I believe When all Voices are Heard, Change Occurs. No ones voice should go unnoticed. In my humblest opinion, the city of Greensboro got off easy with this settlement. I understand the time commitment of holding office, and I understand how important this city is to my family which is one reason I want to do everything in my power to provide the best community not just for my family, but for all families in the Triad. Imoved away for college and spent some time in Baltimore and Washington DC before returning to raise my family in 2000. Agreed- vote out the entire city council! Matheny was an active and effective city councilmember when he served. Current council members will serve abbreviated terms until the next election in 2025. You Outing is committed to push if elected? Greensboro City Council Endorsements_Rhino Times. 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The city of Greensboro, North Carolina, held a general election for mayor on July 26, 2022. A primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. The Greensboro City Council would be much more effective and efficient without District 1 City Councilmember Sharon Hightower. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the United States, and the largest city in the Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. Furman, Candidate for the Greensboro City Council, announces at-large run after previously announcing intentions to run for the open district 3 seat. It is time for change. 216 W. Market Street, Suite-A, The original Rhinoceros Times, founded in 1991, went out of business in May 2013. After attending City Academy in 2017 I knew that I could bring new ideas and the drive to move our city forward. Former City Councilmember Michelle Kennedy was the executive director of the Interactive Resource Center, also funded by the city, when she was elected to the City Council, and City Councilmember Yvonne Johnson is executive director of One Step Further, which has a $400,000 a year contract with the city to run the Cure Violence program. You may also sign up to speak at a meeting by 6 pm the night of the meeting, outside the Katie Dorsett Council Chamber using the designated kiosk. Marikay has honorably served the citizens of Greensboro since she was elected as an At-Large member of the Greensboro City Council in 2011. . It was moved to 2022 due to redistricting delays. Cummings resignation agreement was accepted, ending the investigation, but part of the agreement was that he would never run for a judicial office again. In the at-large City Council race, the top six finishers in the primary regardless of party affiliation run in the general election where the top three are elected to the City Council. The three incumbents are Councilmembers Yvonne Johnson, Marikay Abuzuaiter and Hugh Holston. What about Mary Kay or Nancy Hoffman? TONY WILKINS: See response to the first question. I have a problem with Outling and Vaughn who say they support but in their actions do not support our police department. Take 30 minutes out of your busy lives, do your own homework and vote for who you think are the best candidates. We are way past the 11th hour for this. Several chances Outling had to support OUR police, he did not! DUSTIN KEENE: I feel we overpay for underdelivering a lot. Expand options for energy efficiency and renewable energy production targeted especially at Green Zones and all communities. But the announcement of the Toyota battery plant coming to the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite and Boom Supersonic coming to the Piedmont Triad International Airport has turned the tables and given Vaughan a campaign issue. Hightower talks more at meetings than any other city councilmember, and generally says the same thing over and over again. I 100% agree with Wayne and Glenn. The secretive attempt boldly labeled a public document CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION Remember who broke it when you vote. TRACY FURMAN: I would like to pause theReceivership Program that wasput in place from a consent agenda vote in August 2020 until some of the vagueness and process can be ironed out. Barber has also served on two elected boards, first as a member of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners from 2000-2004 and twice on the City Council, from 2005-2009 and from 2013-2017. Vote for anyone other than these clowns already in charge. Both Outling and Vaughan give a lot of double talk, especially in an election year. Remember when you see your tax dollars going to DGI, Cure Violence, the IRC (free cars anyone? This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Outling is a graduate of UNCG and Duke University Law School and has been running for mayor since December 2020, when the election was scheduled for October and November 2021. But it damaged the perception of the councils honesty and transparency which takes time to rebuild. COUNCIL MEMBERS: Morris Miller Chris Moore Cynthia Rivers Jontavius Smith The regular session meetings for the City Council are held at 6:00 pm on the First and Third Mondays of each month unless that Monday is a holiday; then the meeting will be held the following Tuesday. We need active representation to include transparency, openness and satisfactory solutions. Also filing to run in the at-large race are Katie Rossabi, Linda Wilson, Tracy Furman, Taffy L. Buchanan, Fanca Jalloh, Dustin Keene and Melodi Fentress. The primary for the mayors race can be seen as a poll for the general election. (336) 814-3256 Robinson is a native of Greensboro and caught the public's attention in 2018 when he made a fiery speech on Second Amendment rights before the Greensboro City Council. Four candidates have filed to run in the mayoral race: Mayor Nancy Vaughan, District 3 Councilmember Justin Outling, Eric Robert and Mark Timothy Cummings. Voters will choose among 6 candidates for 3 at-large seats on Greensboro City Council ANNETTE AYRES Jul 23, 2022 0 GREENSBORO Three City Council members hope to retain their. This is Roths first run for public office, but he is no stranger to politics. Filter by Office. We cant win with a trickle-down approach. Dr. Latoya Bernice Gathers stands out because of her varied background working with Doctors Without Borders and at a tuberculosis clinic in Sudan. He is a councilman, why not push for them now? CITY COUNCIL. Any suggestion that Justin would not be supportive of the police and the best of the 4 candidates I find very questionable. (1) will vote for anyone who isnt presently serving or (2) will not vote. Either way, it seems like you are shilling for Outling here. It would fall under the County Commissioners for oversight. In its final form, the consent form was going to have to be provided to the person granting consent in their native language and had become so complex that even the extremely liberal City Council couldnt agree that it was necessary. If you live in the city, your final vote is July 26 no matter what else happens on May 17. TAMMI Z. THURM: Greensboro is at a critical point right now. The email address Lisa Wilson had provided did not work. I will demand a return to our rights in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. A city where differences are accepted and celebrated. Im running because I want Greensboro to not only see butfulfillits potential. I am a hometown girl from several housing communities in this city. Ph: (336) 763-4170 We need to develop creative housing solutions to improve affordability and mobility throughout the city. Hightower is also one of the impediments to development in East Greensboro. We were unable, because of legal reasons, to share with the public what was going on between the city and his family. LATOYA BERNICE GATHERS: I would invest in institutions of higher education as engines of innovation and job creation, foster communities, utilizing untapped talent to drive higher economic returns as well as greater equity, and build basic infrastructure to ensure future growth and to retain a highly trained local workforce. MAYORAL CANDIDATE ERIC ROBERT ANNOUNCES HE HAS UNCOVERED DOCUMENTS SUPPORTING ALLEGATIONS OF MALFEASANCE AND POTENTIAL CIVIL CONSPIRACY ON THE PART OF CURRENT GREENSBORO MAYOR NANCY VAUGHAN, COLISEUM DIRECTOR MATT BROWN AND CITY ATTORNEY CHUCK WATTS. RESPONSIBILITIES : The faculty member will be responsible for teaching up to two sections of the Humanities core curriculum and an elective each term. I feel investing with our collective funds to provide sustainable residual income opportunities for our city is key as opposed to just giving huge sums of money to people who do not pay back their loans nor deserve free money in the form of grants for ideas that are never going to work and only benefits one or few individuals. sales@rhinotimes.com, Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress. Tony Wilkins for Greensboro City Council 2021 Rhino Times Office I wish we can find ways to continuously support our neighbors in all successes. Because of my knowledge of the city, business experience, and 5 years previous experience on council, I believe I can contribute to making Greensboro a better place to live, work, and raise a family. Back when she was a councilmember, Vaughan had to be recused from a vote on reopening the White Street Landfill. Its not a valid plan. The two incumbent candidates (Nancy and Justin) had their chance and have done nothing but spend other peoples money indiscriminately and wastefully. The new online platform allows readers to connect and interact with each other as well as the journalists. Hightower has even organized opposition to a proposed development when there was no other opposition. In terms of what you reference here I am supportive of reviewing the 911 process to validate that what you claim is accurate. They have been in too long already! Need your vote to remove the current city council and mayor. He came to Greensboro to attend UNCG, graduated with a degree in economics and went on to get an MBA at Elon University. At that time, Local 947 did not support her candidacy. I imagine you are aware of the number of 911 calls the county receives. As a District Court judge Cummings was under investigation by the NC Judicial Standards Commission for over a year for his activities on the bench, including falsifying court documents, accusing a NC Highway Patrol trooper of being racist forcing the district attorneys office to drop a driving while impaired charge and changing the bond amount set by a Superior Court judge, something Cummings didnt have the authority to do. Her application includes support for local business and first responders in addition to affordable housing. HUGH HOLSTON: The decision on the siting of the White Street landfill. Dont believe it? While under investigation as a District Court judge, Cummings had run for Superior Court judge. Wells often talks about the need for economic development in East Greensboro, but then votes against the rezoning requests that would allow that development. Those winners move on to the citys General Election, which will be on July 26, the runoff date for any partisan elections. I have heard the voices and cries of the community. Vaughan has three challengers by herself. Assist the police department in recruiting officers to fill vacancies that are having a substantial impact on the amount of patrol officers we have on a daily basis. We must operate for the greater good of everyone. Zack Matheny should be ranked in the same category as Nancy Vaughn when he elected to represent District 3 years ago he did nothing for us except then lobby to run DGI. Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter. I need to know where each candidate stands on the government order for businesses to shut down and for people to stay home. Sure he and council voted for a token raise in an election year so people like yourself would say, See, hes pro-police. Well, it wasnt enough of a difference to make a difference as evidenced by GPDs current police academy, which is sporting a whopping 18 cadets. . Im ready to continue fighting for what is right for all of us. Food needs to be up front, of course. vision will be driven by choosing And & Both not Either/Or. We can create multiple, concurrent solutions that are reasonable, fiscally responsible, and impactful! You seem to be a pro-police voter, which is good, but Outling does not share your point of view: Outling is a wolf in sheeps clothing. Questions? I am proud to say that I am also able to advocate for small businesses having owned a small, independently owned business for 22 years. We have great momentum with a number of job announcements, the Tanger Performing Arts Center completing a historically successful season, and our universities growing and expanding. Working at DWB taught me how to resolve conflicts on a wide scale. Thus current council members all have longer terms, and those elected will have to run again in 2025 (barring some future change). She opposes most of the rezoning requests for East Greensboro and, unfortunately, often convinces a majority of the City Council to vote with her. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. GREENSBORO Former City Council members Mike Barber and T. Dianne Bellamy-Small are among the people who have submitted their names to be considered for the seat recently vacated by Michelle Kennedy. Barber is president and CEO of The First Tee of the Triad, a nonprofit that teaches character building and life skills to kids through golf. Connor Perrett. A primary was scheduled for May 17, 2022. MARIKAY ABUZUAITER: I think we need to take another look at some form of a panhandling license. That resonates the same whether referring to increased taxes, or messed up policies. That makes a lot of sense to me (especially given the fact that 911 is a county service and not a city one or part of the police force). That link is to the City of Greensboro website because Guilford Metro 911 is a city department. To learn more, I invite you tovisitmathenyforcouncil.com. The offices were originally scheduled to be on the ballot in 2021. It took me 3 years to clear my name of numerous charges. You can compare this experience to the maturation of life as you age and mature, whether personally or professionally, the more time you have, the more you understand how things really work. We need to encourage and promote economic development that attracts and retains students/residents while also provide good wages and a high quality of life. Just look at what he did a couple years ago when officers were just trying to locate a guy with a gun on the Greenway. I feel that her empty seat needs to be filled by a progressive with no ties to the power elite in Greensboro, she wrote in her application. I want to use my experience and my voice to champion my Three Pillars for Progress (Economic Development Public Safety Community Engagement). Your email address will not be published. We need rental housing that isnt 50% plus of our income, more houses that are at a price point where people can afford to buy them, and a chance for more people to gain equity in a racially biased banking system. Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/april-7th-candidate-forum-come-hear-from-your-city-council-candidates-tickets-310137338127?aff=esfb&utm-campaign=social&utm . ZACK MATHENY: We need to perform a proper strategic action plan for growth of the city for being proactive versus reactive. 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I feel like I should be on a dos equis commercial. Furman, who is running for a set on the council in the next election, scheduled for March 2022, is a member of the Minimum Housing Standards Commission.
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