The Greensboro City Council met on October 21, 2025, with the meeting concluded in the early hours of October 22. The agenda included a moment of silence, consent agenda items, public hearings on zoning and annexation, and multiple general business items. Council also addressed ceremonial recognitions, infrastructure contracts, and community concerns, with all votes passing overwhelmingly. Key highlights included approval of a city manager salary adjustment, adoption of the Gillespie Golf Course Master Plan, and discussions on winter emergency shelters.
Mayor Pro Tem? Thank you, Madam Mayor. I moved to go into closed session to discuss personnel matters pursuant to NC General Statute 143-318.11. Seconded by uh Mr. Thurm. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Okay. That passes unanimously. And we plan to be back by 5 30 to start the other meeting on time. Welcome to Gate City Insider. I'm Rosemary Plybent. Fifty-four adventures in six years. It kind of sounds like the premise of a book, right? Well, it is, but it's also a whole lot more than just printed pages. Laura Carney is a journalist and author, and she's finishing up a two-week stay in Greensboro as part of one city, one book community read. Hello and welcome. Hi, it's so nice to be here. Good to have you with us. Okay, let's start by just talking a little bit about you. What were you like as a little girl? Oh gosh, I was very shy, very pensive. Um I was in um accelerated classes from a young age and very academic, and I just love to draw all day long, basically. And I played a lot of sports. I was a tomboy too. A reader and writer is a child. Oh, big time. I started reading my mom claims I was three, but I don't remember. Okay, wow, that's impressive. I'm guessing that your parents read to you as a child a lot. Yes, a lot. Yeah, my grandmother too. Oh, that's great. All right, so tell us about your dad, because this is this is leading somewhere. Tell us about your dad. Um, oh, my dad uh was uh a writer himself, and he was a salesman by day, and he actually uh six he sung and he was a comedian in nightclubs that night. What was that like? Uh growing up with him like doing all this. Oh, he you know, he just was one of those people who uh sang more than he spoke and was always on, always entertaining everybody, always always making jokes all the time. Yeah, very charismatic. I I'm picturing him making up songs uh about you guys when it you know the getting ready song or the breakfast song. Yeah, well, you know, there actually wasn't a lot of that because my parents divorced when I was six. So I would see him twice a week. But it was always very um undivided attention from him when we did see him. I like that. And you lost him when you were young, 25 years old. Yes. Tell us about that.