Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston has a message for the voters of Guilford County: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Alston made his effusive remarks at the Thursday, May 19 Board of Commissioners meeting to all those who helped approve the largest education bond in the history of the state – a $1.7 billion school bond referendum to be used for school repairs and new construction.
“My understanding is that it’s the largest school bond that has ever been passed in North Carolina,” Alston said at the meeting, “and some say it’s probably the largest school bond across this country – but definitely in the state.”
“Hats off to our citizens for making it happen,” he said.
He added that it took the unity of the supporters to get it done.
“All of us came together and a lot of you said yes to a $1.7 billion bond package for our schools,” he said. “That’s amazing and we ought to give ourselves a round of applause, a round for the citizens. Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
The chairman also said he wished to thank the local media for going on the school tours that the commissioners held nearly every Wednesday in the months leading up to the election. Alston said that, if it wasn’t for the media being on those tours and broadcasting the poor school conditions into the living rooms of county voters each week, he doesn’t think the $1.7 billion referendum would have passed.
“People saw that and they came forward and said, ‘We have to do something about it.’” Alston said. “A lot of our citizens hadn’t been to our schools in the last 30 or 40 years.”
He also thanked the community volunteers who led the effort to pass the bond referendum.
“Now we can get our schools back where they should be,” Alston said.
Lol…nice try Skip. When the county and city is comprised of 60+% Democratic voters, would only expect the outcome we have on this issue. Still a foolish move to trust this school system and you with that amount of money. Time will sadly prove me to be correct.
Sadly though it appears there is consideration regarding spending the tax payer money at the former American Hebrew Academy that is currently owned by CHINA! Are you kidding?
Contreras proposed putting foster kids over there live and go to school. When they can keep sex offenders off the substitute teacher rosters (and wait until you find out which school this guy worked to get his victims) then maybe they can think about providing housing for students. They want to indoctrinate good little voters.
Exactly We need to get back to the days of teachers who do no wanking, but more spanking.
Bend over skip grab your ankles and my 111/2 timberlands will let you feel what I think of your thanks
Government and the media, hand in hand.
Sound Familiar?
Heck if I got my pockets lined with gold and all my crony friends got rich too, I’d say, thank you, thank you, thank you.
What a thief. And Greensboro residents should be ashamed of themselves for giving this crook this money. Sad
Skippy, you said “My understanding is that it’s the largest school bond that has ever been passed in North Carolina,” Alston said at the meeting, “and some say it’s probably the largest school bond across this country – but definitely in the state.” More than Wake, Mecklenburg, and other larger counties. This should tell you something about the massive overspending our irresponsible School Administrators are with our tax dollars.
We the responsible taxpayers that were firmly AGAINST The $1,700,000,000 bond are shocked that you allowed the school administration to spend our TAX DOLLARS to promote this bond illegally and hire a marketing firm to promote it and use school resources to distribute propaganda to teachers, students, and parents. How much $$$ will Monty Hagler (https://www.rlfcommunications.com/) get now that he has lied to the public about the Bond?
There has been NO transparency in the school admin spending over the past years. Why are you taking the $4,700,000 from the Schools Lottery money to pay your County Debts? Why hasn’t the school admin hired the 35+ vacant positions for school maintenance?
Clearly, this is not a good economic time to build new schools. We will pay twice the price today rather than wait until after this national recession is over.
Many taxpayers in the county are disgusted with the woke liberals that think we like the federal government can just print money.
Now that you got this, I assume you will continue to raise our property taxes. The conservative party will do everything possible to remove you and your Woke liberals and restore some faith and transparency in how our tax dollars are spent.
I am sure he did not take any responsibility for how the schools had gotten into their
“Poor state”.
Guilford county government has it’s own state…….”State of confusion”.
I’ve got some profuse, and mostly profane words for the same voters, and thanks isn’t one of them.
I suppose I will get to pay back debt on schools that my child has LITERALLY never stepped foot in. With that money I would like a refund on the portion of my property tax that goes to the school system.
Boy am I glad I moved out of Guilford years ago. Things have really gone down hill much farther than I expected they would when I decided to leave.