Until two years ago, the Guilford County budget process – when it came to funding non-profits – went like this: The county manager, along with a staff committee, would review applications from non-profits and community-based organizations, such as festivals, arts organizations, museums and a host of others seeking county funding.
The county manager would then make recommendations, and the county commissioners would hold public work sessions to decide which groups would get taxpayer money and which ones wouldn’t.
A lot of county taxpayers don’t like seeing county government use their money for those purposes – especially in a tough economy like this one and at a time when both the City of Greensboro and Guilford County have imposed giant property tax hikes…