City Council Needs to Take Charge of Greensboro
Posted in Greensboro City Council
Dec. 31, 2007 at 11:35
by BrendaBee
Bill Knight on his blog calls for the City Council to fire the City Manager Mitchell Johnson. I agree with that as far as it goes, but the City Council who are elected by the people need to take charge of Greensboro. They need to do the job the people elected them to do. And they need to be paid more so they can take the time away from their businesses to do this job. So here is my two cents worth of unsolicited advice.:1) The City Council needs to take control and make several changes. Among them are firing Johnson with the same consideration he gave David Wray which of course will never happen. No, the SOB will get a big pot of tax payer goodwill money and a great recommendation.
2) they need to get the City Manager out of the City Council and in the cheap seats where he belongs.
3) they need to put the entire Legal Department and the Police Department directly under the control of the City Council. Both departments are to be available to "advise" the City Manager in areas where they can help with city management.
4) for good measure, although I don't see this happening either, they should put all department heads directly under the control of the City Council. Department Heads are to take direction from the City Manager on a day to day basis, but when there is a dispute they have the right to come to the City Council for advice. And the City Manager can not fire department heads. If there is a dispute serious enough to need addressed by someone leaving then the City Manager must bring his case to the City Council.
5) Last, they should rehire David Wray and give him total control to clean up the GPD. The Black officers will scream and charge racism and the FBI will come in and investigate. I frankly think that all law suits against Wray would go away if all of the facts were allowed to come out and the blame for all that has happened is place on Mitch Johnson and Linda Miles. Then the city will just have to deal with the suits against those two. With any luck the police officers who were harmed by Miles and Johnson will drop their suits if they get their jobs and reputations back. BB
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Dec. 31, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Note to David Wray Groupies: Jesus will return before David Wray returns to the GPD. Get a life and move on.Posted by Anonymous
Jan. 1, 2008 - Untitled Comment
BubbaNote to Anonymous:
"Moving on" on this subject is exactly the wrong thing to do if we ever want to be successful in changing the "Business As Usual" way things have always been done in this city.
But it IS the statist way of operating, isn't it?
Posted by Bubba
