Incompetence Reigns on the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners | Eastern North Carolina Now

A sorry story of incompetence rewarding incompetence.

    On Tuesday, January 14, 2025, there occurred a Special Called Meeting of the Beaufort County Commissioners regarding possible land acquisition for the Beaufort County Schools due to their inadequate planning at the most essential level - the effort to gain clear title to land already thought owned, yet under the threat of great penalty by defect of title. Consequently, the commissioners did meet on short notice, and after some wise discussion to the contrary, the Beaufort County Commissioners did vote to unwisely waste an additional $500,000.00 to buy a piece of land, that they did not need to buy, to eventually build a school that many believe does not need to be built ... not if one considers the People's treasury sacrosanct at the local level. Obviously, the Center-Left Coalition considers this "play money" a big piece of their political play pen.


Beaufort County Commissioners meet to decide whether to spend $500,000.00 of the public's tax dollars, or choose the no cost option to achieve the same benefit of saving the Beaufort County Schools from their abject incompetence.     Click image to expand.
    The county commissioners voted 3 to 4, in the affirmative, to spend a half of a million dollars to purchase 4 acres from the City of Washington, so that the Beaufort County Schools' title to land already considered owned by them, with a remainder interest to the county government of Beaufort. To clarify that supposed need to own these 4 acres, the Beaufort County Schools, with the ongoing support of Beaufort County's governing Center-Left Coalition, were caught about to build a 52 million dollar school on land thought to be fully owned entirely by the Beaufort County School System; but, with a severe defect in title, 4 acres, where the retaining pond was to be located, was owned instead by the City of Washington.

    Voting against the motion to quickly spend $500,000.00, to clean-up a question of incompetence by the Beaufort County School Board, their administration and their Durham County based Board Attorney, was Republican Commissioners Hood Richardson, Tandy Dunn and Stan Deatherage. Voting to spend the half of a million dollars rather than swap 4 acre parcels of land between the county government and the school board, at no additional expense, was all members of the Center-Left Coalition; a group that has come together in a bipartisan manner to swap votes to share power, coalition members - Jerry Langley, Ed Booth, Frankie Waters and Randy Walker.

    In discussing the antics of the infamous Center-Left Coalition, Commissioner Hood Richardson has often stated, "If these Leftist commissioners did not exhibit incompetence, they would show no part of the word competence at all in their political dealings." Take a gander at this video offered below, and you decide.