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Let the head-butting continue

More than one City Council member has said the board is getting along much better since they – nearly unanimously – agreed to hire new City Manager Rashad Young.

Just to test that issue, it seems, the council started its regular Tuesday meeting with a row over trash disposal.

A group came to ask the council to consider a pilot project on an alternative way to dispose of trash. Councilman Mike Barber accused Mayor Yvonne Johnson of bringing the group in as an attempt to block the council’s plan to ask for RFPs on the trash issue.

Barber was in support of the request for proposal, which was requests by another group that had an separate proposal for how the city should handle its trash.

The mayor said she had not, as Barber accused, arranged for the group to visit the city landfill.

After much back and forth about the intentions of the group and how the council should proceed in regards to trash, Councilman Zack Matheny got his turn to speak.

“Rashad,” he said to the new city manager, who was attending his first meeting, “welcome to Greensboro.”

“Are we having fun yet?” Councilwoman Mary Rakestraw asked.