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Gibson wants layoff, early retirement info

At the end of Thursday's Guilford County commissioners meeting, Commissioner Paul Gibson asked for some information that we've been trying to get for some time on the county's layoffs, early retirement and contract with a new county attorney.

"We have never gotten any figures on what the cost was for Guilford County on the early retirement packages that were offered," he asked County Manager Brenda Jones Fox. "I’d like to see what that package of early retirement has cost us."

This is stuff we asked about back when the early retirement was announced. And for the layoffs. And the day after it was announced that Nexsen Pruet would be the county's new top legal counsel, we asked Fox if she had details on the cost of the contract. Which she didn't have at the time, but last night said told Gibson that it was prepared.

That makes sense, somewhat, because it takes a little time to draw up contracts.

So now that a commissioner has asked for that stuff, does that mean that the rest of the public now gets to know?

That's what we hope to find out today. We asked Fox and other county staff this morning for the same information that Gibson asked for, which Fox said Thursday she would provide for all the commissioners.