Welcome to the YES! Weekly Pop Quiz, where we ask elected officials about their jobs. This week, we address questions to members of the Winston-Salem City Council about items on the agenda at its Jan. 19 meeting. The rules are simple: no research, no callbacks. This quiz was administered before the meeting..
1. There’s a transportation [item] in terms of speed limits being changed on the consent agenda. [√]
2. Asked to be reduced to 25. Currently, if I’m not mistaken it’s 35. [√]
3. Right offhand I can’t say. [X]
Robert Clark, West Ward
1. There’s very little. We’re going to vote to change the meeting in March because [some of us are] going to be in Washington that month for the National League of Cities meeting. And we’re going to recognize the volunteers. [√]
2. I would say 25 mph. [√]
3. Good gracious. That was $20 million or $12 million. We’ll say $18 million. [X]
Dan Besse, Southwest Ward
1. Consideration of our city council meeting schedule. [√]
2. Twenty-five. That’s fairly typical. You get residential neighborhoods with a request to lower from 35 to 25. [√]
3. The return is about 59 to 1. [√]
Questions
1. Name something on the agenda tonight.
2. What is the speed limit recommended by the Department of Transportation for Brachill Boulevard and Chelsea Street?
3. What is the amount per dollar brought in to the city of Winston-Salem as a result of its consulting contract with the Ferguson Group, according to Deputy City Manager Derwick Paige? (10 percent safe harbor)
Derwin Montgomery, East Ward1. There’s a transportation [item] in terms of speed limits being changed on the consent agenda. [√]
2. Asked to be reduced to 25. Currently, if I’m not mistaken it’s 35. [√]
3. Right offhand I can’t say. [X]
Robert Clark, West Ward
1. There’s very little. We’re going to vote to change the meeting in March because [some of us are] going to be in Washington that month for the National League of Cities meeting. And we’re going to recognize the volunteers. [√]
2. I would say 25 mph. [√]
3. Good gracious. That was $20 million or $12 million. We’ll say $18 million. [X]
Dan Besse, Southwest Ward
1. Consideration of our city council meeting schedule. [√]
2. Twenty-five. That’s fairly typical. You get residential neighborhoods with a request to lower from 35 to 25. [√]
3. The return is about 59 to 1. [√]
Correct Answers
1. Revising the council meeting schedule, recognizing Martin Luther King Jr. Young Dreamers Award recipients and reducing the speed limit on two streets
2. 25 mph
3. $59.95 (The actual amount of $25.8 million is also considered correct)
