Cabarrus Cheap Seats

Update: For the full summary of the “Juba Scandal” - click here.
For months, we’ve been hearing how Joni Juba forced the Construction Manager Selection Committee to choose Turner. Harold Smith and others have painted a picture of a backroom deal between Joni Juba and Turner Construction. In this clandestine meeting Juba makes sure that Turner [...]

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With the meeting coming up on this Monday, it’s easy to think that everyone in Concord feels like the jail project is a bad idea. However, there are many who feel differently. Here are just a few who took the time to write thoughtful letters to the editor
John W. Kennedy
Alex Rankin
Glenn H. White
Steve Medlin

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This is a letter to the editor from Alex Rankin of Concord Engineering.
11 January 2006 
Dear Editor:
I have had the good fortune to be able to continuously work in downtown Concord since graduating college in 1978. In that time doing business downtown has changed from merely being a matter of convenience being located near the Courthouse [...]

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This is a letter to the editor from Glenn H. White, former Chairman of Cabarrus County Democratic Party.
December 28, 2005
Dear Editor: 
One more time, controversy rears its’ ugly head over another project. This time, a jail in downtown Concord. My experience in these types of projects is, once they are approved to build everybody forgets about [...]

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This is the letter to the editor from John W. Kennedy, former editor of the Independent Tribune
January 10, 2006 
Dear Editor:
Since discussion first surfaced about the need for a new Cabarrus County jail late in the last century, I have followed with interest the various proposals that have come before the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners.
Now, [...]

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This is a letter to the Editor from Steve Medlin of Concord.
November 14, 2005
Dear Editor:
As a native and a downtown property owner who has worked here over 28 years, I know how my downtown Concord neighbors feel about the new county jail project. I felt the same way when I first heard about it. Then, [...]

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This was Coy Privette’s response to the January 11, 2004 Independent Tribune editorial.
We should examine all options for justice complex 
The headline above the editorial on Sunday, January 11 was “New justice complex should stay downtown.” The headline of a more thoughtful editorial might have read “New justice complex locations should be thoroughly analyzed.”
It is entirely [...]

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This is an editorial from the January 11, 2004 Independent Tribune. Unfortunately, there’s no copy on-line; but I did manage to get a hard copy.
NEW JUSTICE COMPLEX SHOULD STAY DOWNTOWN

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So, if you’ve been following this blog, you’ll notice that someone who appears to be Coy Privette has been responding to some of my posts, and challenging some of the conclusions I made during my review of BOC meeting minutes from the last 5 years. Mainly that I missed an important “proposal” he made to [...]

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Last Monday, Bob Carruth was elected Chairman of the Board of Commissioners. He has the second-longest continuous tenure on the board behind Coy Privette. That being said, he doesn’t need my advice, he didn’t ask for it, but he’s getting it anyway.
Cut Taxes

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