At the Greensboro City Council Meeting on March 17, 2009 during the end of the meeting item #31 is called Addendum.There was a resolution brought to the attention of the council that has to deal with having state ethics laws brought to the local and county level.(HAT TIP YES WEEKLY) on their blog CLICKHERE
Here is the link to the video at around the 1:55 mark on CLICKHERE then proceed to March 17, 2009 video.
Greensboro City Attorney Terry Wood had this to say" This is put on as a request from a council member. This is a state ethics act that covers state commissions and boards it is very extensive and includes filling out forms acknowledging the different various types of ownership, and any interest you have in the property you own. In other words a full disclosure and the purpose of it is to keep, to prevent conflicts of interest. At least what our legislature perceives as conflicts of interest.And this is an act that is pending in the legislature now. House Bill #287 CLICKHERE or click on the title above and if you adopt a resolution it would be to acknowledge support for that resolution. You of course can't enact it , that's a state wide law.That's the purpose of it. "
Then the Mayor Johnson's talks about going to speak to a group of people and accepting a potted plant or some flowers and how the mayor does accept these gifts.She then asked the City Attorney is that proper or improper and He said under this bill it would be improper. There are over five pages of what you can and cannot do and the city attorney then said the best thing to do is not accept gifts at all.
Then the ethically challenged Greensboro City Council member Robbie " Pave It " Perkins had this to say,"These days it is hard to vote against a ethics law. I think that being said the debate at the legislature is going to be very interesting to watch. Because the legislature has imposed these ethics rules on themselves.Largely as a result of the problems that they had with
ex-DEMOCRAT speaker Jim Black. They have imposed these laws and found them unwieldly and have been modify it ever since.So the debate as I understand it from talking today to some of the house members is do they want to take a step further and impose it on all of the municipal officials in the state.Because they are already under it.Good arguments on both sides. We should support it and move on."
Who would have thunk that Robbie 'Pave It " Perkins would be all over passing a resolution in support of this ethics bill but as you heard above they have found the ethics laws unwielding and are modifying the law to this day. So if you can read into that statement then the League of Municipalities are going to water down this ethics law to practically nothing. If you want to see what a ethically challenged city council member is then CLICKHERE or CLICKHERE
It would be nice to know which Greensboro City Council member actually brought this up as an addendum because the city attorney only said a city council member brought this up without naming a name. Who wants to guess who it was? We can take one very ethically challenged Greensboro City Council member out of the guessing game because when it was time to vote on this resolution in support of bringing ethics to the local and county level the vote was 7-1 with T Dianne Bellamy Small"TDBS" voting NO. How could you not be for ethics on the local level of city and county politics as the mayor had said but TDBS sure doesn't want any part of ethics and her past history has shown that. Can anyone say polygraph test.
UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE , Tony Wilkins has answered my question above here is the link CLICKHERE. Thanks Tony
Even before this was brought up in front of Greensboro City Council,
Joe Guarino had posted this on his blog CLICKHERE with a title "Ethics Laws and Local Elected Officials" .
This law is much needed on the local level and it is time to let your state legislators know that you are in support of this bill. All you would need to do is say to your state representatives " Bring Ethics to the Local Level Support House Bill #287". If you want to e-mail your state representative here is the link
CLICKHERE for House
CLICKHERE for Senate
5 comments:
You call Robbie Perkins ethically challenged and then link to a post about him recuse himself from a vote because of a conflict of interest -- an ethical thing to do.
I think calling someone unethical is a pretty serious challenge. You should having something to back it up other than your dislike of developers getting elected.
Ugh, one cup of coffee is obviously not enough. Sorry for the typos.
Trudy Wade Initiated “Ethics” Addendum, Passes 7-1
http://www.busybeingbornblog.com/?p=295
roch,
first off you say unethical. Where in the whole post do you see unethical? As you can see I say ethically challenged which is what you posted in first paragraph not second part.
I won't try to post everytime I talk about a local politician to bring up their past but a few examples come to mind for Robbie " Pave It "Perkins in heart of the triad,lincoln financial incentive, and center pointe with Roy " North Carolinians for Leadership in Government PAC" Carroll being the leasing agent on center pointe, to name a few.Check out the video of him talking to city attorney terry wood about center pointe.
You can also talk about this land speculation game he and Zack Matheny played off of Highway 68.With millions in taxpayers money going to water and sewer for the area coming 8 months after they knew what was coming.
Let's take Heart of the Triad or Joke of the Triad as some will call it.WHo has been behind this whole thing from the start called Heart of the Triad , Robbie Perkins.When this whole thing started it was packed with developers with no involvement from the local citizens.Robbie is not letting joke of the triad die.There are plenty of people in area who want to see it be put on a shelf and collect dust.
All you also have to do is see a map of Joke of The Triad and see who really has the say in how this area grows it is High Point and Kernersville and why do they have the most to say in this area it is because these 2 municipalities have the sewer and water in the area not much from Greensboro.
thanks tony will update post
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