About 20 years ago the Guilford County Board of Commissioners would sometimes actually reject incentives requests from companies – or at least they would argue about it and Chairman Skip Alston and the late Commissioner Carolyn Coleman would ask about minority representation of the company’s leadership.
But those days are gone.
These days, the board always approves the incentives packages that come before them and the one coming early next month will be no exception. Still, the board is required by law to hold a public, so they are going to hold a hearing for advocates and opponents to have their say before the board votes unanimously to approve giving $300,000 to a prosperous company that no doubt would have chosen Guilford County anyway…