The Joint Capital/Facilities Committee – a body consisting of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners and Guilford County Board of Education – has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, Jan. 28, and it should be a very interesting one indeed.
In the last four years, Guilford County voters have approved $2 billion in school bond money, which the commissioners have been shoveling over to the school system. Yet something is going wrong somewhere because – just to take the highest profile example, Page High School – which was supposed to get a complete rebuild but now is only slated for repairs – missed school days earlier this month because the school’s heating and air conditioning broke down and took a long time to fix.
When the school board came under fire from a very displeased group of parents and students who showed up in numbers at a January Board of Education meeting, some school board members pointed the finger of blame at the county commissioners and told the people to speak to the commissioners about the problem…