Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask politicians and public servants about their jobs. This week we address questions to members of the Greensboro City Council. The rules are simple: no research, no callbacks.
Q U E S T I O N S
1 What two actions has City Manager
Mitchell Johnson recommended be taken
for capital spending from 2000 parks and
recreation bonds funds allocated to Keeley
Park in District 2?
2 What are some of the recommendations
in the State of Human Relations report on
which the council was briefed on Nov. 25?
3 Under what circumstances are city
inspectors supposed to inspect the interior of
rental properties, under the amended housing
ordinance?
Sandra Anderson Groat, at-large
1. He suggested we not do it right now because
of the maintenance. I don’t know the answer to
the other one. [ -]
2. Classes to educate people, a task force of 50
people to look at that and see ways to make things
better, to have a tenant education program, to
have the Greensboro Police Department continue
with sensitivity classes. That’s all I can think of. [ ]
3. If there’s been complaint. A complaint from
the tenant, a complaint from the landlord should
be investigated. Oh, if they have had a certain
number of violations in a certain period of time.
[ ]
Robbie Perkins, at-large
1. [Declined to participate] [X]
2. [Declined to participate] [X]
3. I don’t know. That’s for [staff] to keep up with.
[X]
Goldie Wells, District 2
1. He suggested that we take that money and
put it over to Barber Park to finish because they
ran into some problems, and the reason we’re
not going to go on with Keeley Park is because
the maintenance [cost] is so high…. It would be
added to the debt, so he didn’t think it would be
good fiscal management. [ ]
2. That we would have more dialogue that we
would look at addressing feelings that the uneducated
and lower income people have a feeling that
they’re being slighted in jobs, that they feel that
they’re being mistreated. [ ]
3. If they see something on the outside and
they can do something on the inside. There’s supposed
to be training in each one of the districts.
I think if they get complaints from, I don’t know
whether it’s the people renting house? [ ]
1 City Manager Mitchell Johnson recommended that the project be delayed for one year, and $783,000 be transferred from Keeley Park to the Barber Park Recreation Center in District 1.
2 The State of Human Relations in Greensboro report recommends that the city address the role that poverty plays in discrimination; provide diversity training for police officers, city employees, educators and citizens; improve access to the human relations department for immigrants; address geographic disparities in amenities to citizens; and address negative perceptions of city government through dialogue.
3 Inspectors are supposed to inspect the interior of rental properties following new construction, when requested by the owner, after a rental unit certificate of occupancy has been revoked, when a complaint is received, when the condition of the property’s exterior suggests a probable violation of code inside the dwelling, when a unit has been before the Minimum Housing Commission in the previous year, when a unit has had one or more confirmed violations within two separate occasions within a six-month period within the previous year, and through a random selection 2 percent sample of properties otherwise assumed to be in good condition.
