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Meet the candidate: Nancy Vaughan, at-large

Nancy Vaughan spent two terms as the City Council District 4 representative but did not seek re-election so that she could spend time raising her daughter.

Vaughan is now taking her chance at one of the three City Council at-large seats.

She got drawn into politics again recently, when she began to follow the fight to get protest petition back to Greensboro. Advocates pushed City Council members for more than a year before they took up the debate.

“I was frustrated that council sat on it,” she said during a recent interview over a cup of hot tea at the Green Bean.

Vaughan would like to see the council adopt a public-records policy that sets deadlines for how quickly the city responds to requests. State law does not have such a requirement.

Vaughan said the on-going troubles with the police department have been bad for the city. She would like to see city leaders address alleged errors in the findings of the 2005 Risk Management Association report, a review of the police department troubles that led to the resignation of the former police chief.

“The RMA report has basically been discredited," Vaughan said. "We need to address that. We need to get our money back on that report.”

 As a leader, Vaughan said she would try to find common ground with other council members.

“We all live in the city," she said. "We all want what’s best for the city.”

She said council members need to spend more time out in the community and do some big-picture planning.

Vaughan is also issuing a challenge to her competitors. She has filled out the state ethics form, detailing the financial stakes of her family. And she’s asking fellow candidates to do the same.

Nancy Vaughan's web site.

News & Record info about Vaughan.