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Our latest story from the Guilford County commissioners focused on an incentive plan, backed primarily by Steve Arnold, to offer incentives -- or tax abatements, depending on where your politics lie -- to nearly any business in the county.

In the story, we paraphrased a comment from Commissioner Carolyn Coleman and supported it with her ending quote.

Coleman called us up today and asked why her entire quote wasn't included. Scoop says that her quote was included, but the verbatim discussion was not.

From the story:

Commissioner Carolyn Coleman voted against tabling the policy, citing private conversations Arnold held with individual commissioners.

“I’m wondering why we need a work session to discuss the same thing again,” she said.

Commissioners usually hold several work sessions per year. They often focus on subjects such as the budget or an annual meeting or discus the particulars of a complex project or issue.

Back to Thursday's conversation. After the comment from Coleman, which we quoted, Arnold answered by saying that the Board of Commissioners has "strong personalities" and that he wants to make sure that "there’s adequate opportunity to comment." He also made several other points on the legal and policy aspects of the plan that are under review and mentioned that the public may also wish to participate in the discussion.

Coleman, in response, said,  "And you don’t think that could be done in a regular meeting setting?"

"It could, but if we could just have time to focus on it for a hour or two," Arnold said, "I think we'd make a lot of progress and just be done with it."

You can see it yourself here, about 15 minutes into the meeting.

As for the overall future of the incentive plan, it appears that there will be a work session and then another opportunity to talk about it in September at a regular commissioners meeting.