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Tuesday night, August 7, the Greensboro City Council may have opened the curtain on the final act of a truly strange series of events involving Guilford County and the bizarro world of Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox. |
Guilford County's building at 325 E. Russell Ave. in High Point, which houses hundreds of county social services workers and other county employees, has been the subject of complaints about insect and rodent infestation, leaks in the roof, parking problems and acoustical problems the building is even keeping county employees from wearing high heel shoes to work because the noise travels so easily through the floors. |
Guilford County government has seen a recurring pattern over the last two years: County Manager Brenda Jones Fox decides to take some action say, give herself a giant bonus, sign away the county's real estate location rights, open a Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) license plate office, or create a new high-ranking position to be filled by a friend of hers and then she fails to inform the Board of Commissioners, which is supposed to be running the county. |
Guilford County Commissioner Mike Winstead is a very popular man these days. He's the deciding vote in whether Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox gets to keep her job or not and, last week, Fox invited Winstead to lunch, which the two had at Anton's Restaurant. Commissioner Paul Gibson, a leading advocate of firing Fox, has asked Winstead to have coffee with him on Thursday, July 12. |
Guilford County's recent move to kick City of Greensboro employees and North Carolina court workers out of their parking spaces in the lot under the governmental plaza in downtown Greensboro has caused all sorts of unforeseen problems that include everything from security issues for court workers to a displacement of parking for handicapped jurors to an impairment of the normal function of some city and state operations. |
The Guilford County Board of Commissioners may not have had the courage necessary to second a motion to fire Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox at the Thursday, June 21 meeting, but the commissioners did have the courage in an illegal closed session, that is to hire a headhunter to start looking for Fox's replacement. |
Late Wednesday afternoon, June 27, Guilford County Attorney Mark Payne released a statement from US Attorney's Office that said an investigation of Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox that began in November was now closed. |
News that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Criminal Investigation unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are investigating Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox has created major concern among the Guilford County commissioners and other county officials. |
Guilford County Manger Brenda Jones Fox is the subject of an investigation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Criminal Investigation unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). |
A $61,000 bonus for Guilford County Manager Brenda Jones Fox and bonuses for other Guilford County employees who have worked for the county for 30 years or more were shot down on a 9-to-2 vote of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners at their meeting on Thursday, June 7. However, the vote by the board hasn't put a halt to the fallout or to the threat of a lawsuit. |
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