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Your claim that Mr. Brooks made the motion to give the $$ to the Housing Authority, then bought those two lots with intent to sell is 100% straight up BS. The lot that Mr. Brooks bought in January is located on Fleming St, not on Gladden St. I'd love to see proof otherwise.

Also, LOL, your whole premise is that the City just gave $580,000 to the Housing Authority. It was $528,000, and it was a loan. I realize there were other items/services given to the Housing Authority as well, but helping the Housing Authority out with discounted or free water, sewer, or electrical services has been going on for years.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 3:26 pm By: Kary
Oh I agree, It's amazing how NC government gets away with it. On all levels
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 3:05 pm By: Big Bob
Sorry, negligent. And ordered to pay. Just a fact.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 3:06 pm By: Big Bob
Kary you have you head stuck in the sand. Try a simple search instead of claiming I'm making it up. There is NO dispute of the transfer. Washington Daily News article www.thewashingtondailynews.com

If there's nothing here then please explain why it's day 102 of non-compliance with the Freedom of Information Act request?
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm By: Gary Ceres
I need to amend my previous comment. The county allocated an additional $1,557,413 to Beaufort County Schools over what was allocated in FY23. In FY 23, the County gave them an additional $560,000 over the prior year. Read that again, they are getting an additional $1.5+ MILLION and cannot afford to tape their meetings? On a yearly $72 million dollar budget, the county school system gets over $18 million! The school system (not including the college) is over 25% of the county budget. As a taxpayer, everyone should be livid at the lack of transparency and communication from the school board. They need to quit blaming the county and start taking responsibility for their shortcomings and failures.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 2:33 pm By: BCCitizen
I could not agree more with all of the above. Dr. Cheeseman chooses where to allocate funding. Beaufort County Schools has received more funding every fiscal year from the county even though they employ less people every year. Dr. Phipps understood that when students left, teachers and funding had to adjust in the same direction. Dr. Cheeseman chooses to relocate teachers without ever informing the board during a public meeting. His transparency is clear as mud. He was caught lying to the board about his relocating of a teacher at BES this year. They ended up rescinding the decision once there was an uproar of how it was handled by the Superintendent and Board. If they were on the up and up, they would record those meetings. You cannot find detailed minutes of their meetings. Their minutes include NO discussion. The county should demand a portion of their budget be allocated to recording of the meetings. The county gave them an additional $560,000 more this year! Where is it going?
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:54 pm By: BCCitizen
I know how deed searches work. If you did, you would know the 10/2 deed is for a piece of property at 3rd & Van Norden, not Edgewater Dr.
I have searched back through a bunch of minutes and have yet to see a mention of a $580,000 transfer to the Housing Authority. The date you claim that occured would be great.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 2:02 pm By: Kary
More ignorance. Nobody is found "guilty" in civil court. Any jurisdiction with an objective jury pool would have tossed out that nothingburger.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 2:00 pm By: Steven P. Rader
Another sale recorded October 2nd, 2023 (in time for election) at 169 Edgewater Drive.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm By: Gary Ceres
Well I have the Deeds lol. And it's public undisputed record of the $580,000 transfer. You can't upload pdf files on comments but if you send me your email address I'll send you the deeds.Deeds. Sale back to Housing Authority recorded April 4, 2023 at 10:30 AM in Beaufort County but suspiciously notarized in Greene County.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:44 pm By: Gary Ceres
Trump was found guilty of it in Civil, not criminal court. If anyone has proof, or can make their case then I care. So far, it's just stuff.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:29 pm By: Big Bob
Proof that Mr. Brooks sold properties for a profit to the Housing Authority. Proof that the City gave the Housing Authority $580,000, and that they took expensive vacations with the money, after splitting the proceeds with Mr. Brooks. You can't just make crazy stuff up, and spout it all over Facebook and this site.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:29 pm By: Kary
Big Bob, compliance with a Freedom of I formation request isn't left or right ... its the law.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:36 pm By: Gary Ceres
On another issue, a constitutional issue, which you just inadvertently helped me make Big Bob, Gary should not be forced to go to court to prove anything, especially where his government is concerned. He is more than welcome to use his 1st Amendment guarantee of Freedom of Speech to seek redress, and in particular for Gary Ceres, his guaranteed Free Speech is political speech.

The government does not have to do a thing if it wishes to try to wriggle out of that whole transparency paradigm ... but, then again there are the courts, but better yet, there is this inconvenient system of elections every few years.

Changes can be made then, and they can be made at the political drop of a hat. That we should all be well aware of.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:35 pm By: Stan Deatherage
Actually, this is not the "BO." Gary publishes on the BCN side of this platform - Eastern NC NOW. There is a difference.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:31 pm By: Stan Deatherage
Gary,
If you have evidence of illegal activity you should make your case in Court, not the BO. The far right has a track record of saying "stuff". However in court its not working out because you need more than "stuff"
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:25 pm By: Big Bob
However in NC, run mostly by republicans, also has a track record of not complying with the freedom of information act. Stick with it. Make your case. Right now it's just stuff.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By: Big Bob
Establishment Republicans / RINOs used to be called "country club Republicans". Perry is having a local fundraiser and guess where he is scheduling it? At the country club, of course! Perfect place for a Democrat-in-Drag who prostitutes for the special interests.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:15 pm By: Rino Hunter
The corrupt purchase with taxpayer money of two substandard lots from Sadler crony Richard Brooks, a council member who should have abstained and recused himself but did not is well documented. I hope Ceres has the technical ability to post the deeds online for all to see, as well as the minutes.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:11 pm By: Rino Hunter
What burden of proof lol? They aren't complying with a Freedom of Information Act request and his wife heads the Housibg Authority based on an appointment. This isn't anything requiring proof.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:09 pm By: Gary Ceres
Superintendant Cheeseman is a control freak and that is why he does not want the citizens watching what is going on at the school board meetings. The sad thing is that a majority of our school board are yes-men who ask "how high?" when Cheeseman says "jump". Too many of them have never figured out that Cheeseman is their employee, instead of their boss like he thinks he is.

This raises another point on seating. Why is a bureaucrat like Cheeseman seated with the elected policymakers? He should be seated with the other bureaucrats. It is really pathetic to see our current joke of a board chairman watching the superintendant for signals of what to do next.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 1:08 pm By: Rino Hunter
The burden of proof is on Mr. Ceres. I'm not the one making these outlandish claims all over the internet.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:07 pm By: Kary
One more comment, this time about about the clustered mess of the School Board's seating arrangement before I move on.

It is feasibly and technically impossible to record these meetings without exclusively concentrating on separate headshots of the person speaking, which will require multiple cameras and extensive editing, or ... one camera that must charge to the sound of whoever is speaking, which will make the meetings very difficult to watch due to the lag time in voice and the filming of that person who is recognized to speak.

It is as if the governing body's inane layout is planned for perfect imperfection of purpose.
Commented: Monday, October 30th, 2023 @ 12:14 pm By: Stan Deatherage
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