POP QUIZ
1) What was the total dollar amount of the contract awarded by city council to Mainline Contracting,
Inc., for construction of West Clemmonsville Road Extension?
2) What contractor did the city council select to provide two new side-loading garbage trucks?
What was the dollar amount of the contract?
3) What was the total dollar amount generated by the sale of Ernie Shore Stadium, which the
council approved putting toward the Brookstown Project — the new downtown baseball stadium?
Robert Clark, West
Ward
1) I don’t know. [X]
2) I don’t know. [X]
3) $5.5 million [√]
Dan Besse, Southwest
Ward
1) I don’t know. [X]
2) I don’t know. [X]
3) I review all those items but don’t commit
those to memory, but I would guess
$6 million. [√-]
Evelyn Terry, Southeast Ward
1) $3 million [X]
2) I don’t try to keep up with the names of the companies, but I would say $500,000. [X]
3) It started at $5 million; the original negotiations were at $5 million, so that’s what I would
guess. [√-]
ANSWERS
1) $4 million
2) Transource; $442,000
3) $5.5 million
Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz,
where we asked politicians and public servants
about their jobs. This week we asked
members of the Winston-Salem City Council
about resolutions passed during the council’s
regular meeting on Nov. 17. The rules
are simple: no research, no callbacks.
1) What was the total dollar amount of the contract awarded by city council to Mainline Contracting,
Inc., for construction of West Clemmonsville Road Extension?
2) What contractor did the city council select to provide two new side-loading garbage trucks?
What was the dollar amount of the contract?
3) What was the total dollar amount generated by the sale of Ernie Shore Stadium, which the
council approved putting toward the Brookstown Project — the new downtown baseball stadium?
Robert Clark, West
Ward
1) I don’t know. [X]
2) I don’t know. [X]
3) $5.5 million [√]
Dan Besse, Southwest
Ward
1) I don’t know. [X]
2) I don’t know. [X]
3) I review all those items but don’t commit
those to memory, but I would guess
$6 million. [√-]
Evelyn Terry, Southeast Ward
1) $3 million [X]
2) I don’t try to keep up with the names of the companies, but I would say $500,000. [X]
3) It started at $5 million; the original negotiations were at $5 million, so that’s what I would
guess. [√-]
ANSWERS
1) $4 million
2) Transource; $442,000
3) $5.5 million
