Remarks by Jim Bailey
16 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Yes, just looking over briefly, you know, you talked about the salaries. It looks like the annual wages is just over $54,000.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“All right. Three or four other counties that I've listened to lately that's had a lot of the, they've been giving companies grants and tax incentives to come in, and none of them come to attrition. I mean, I think they're, from Mecklenburg County, I think they're running about 60% that doesn't even happen. Do we have any safe falls? I mean, is there something that can be done if, in case they decide after we give them grant money that they're not going to do anything.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, the main reason that I pulled this is not that I disagree with it. I was just wanting to make people aware. Is there anyone to speak about the wells, what the grant's for?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, I was wanting to make people aware of what their money is being spent on, which is good. Oh, yes, sir. Because it's a testing of the wells, and there's a number of other things that locate them, and you also talk about the deserved wells also.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, sir. I have one for the Transportation Advisory Board, received by Carson Bonilla.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Sorry, I didn't know. This may take just a couple minutes, but one of the things that when I came into office, I heard a lot of number of different things and different people talking about transparency. And I've kind of tried to pride myself on that. But some of the things that we have to cover sometimes is not one of the things that you take pleasure in. And I feel that the residents of Gaston County and I feel the employees of Gaston County should be made aware of some of these issues. Everything that I'm going to say tonight is public record, and if you request it, you can receive it. We…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 22, 2026
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“Good afternoon, Jim Bailey, South Palm Township.”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“a while back about phasing out access. Where are we at at that point?”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. How many of those were actually were in Gastonia City?”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Would you say the majority are in townships or in the county?”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“OK. All right. And you had mentioned something about the majority of the money was going to administrative.”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“OK, so most of this doesn't support the vehicles and the drivers. This actually doesn't work?”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes. This is more on the residential side.”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“Over the past year, I've been looking at numerous properties on MLS and their appraised value. And over the past year, the appraised values are well below the MLS. Everything has went down compared to their schedule of values, I guess, what the county had appraised them at. So is that something that The residents of Gaston County will be able to see their properties lowering for residential values.”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026
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“right on the commercial uh i spoke with you when we first first got into office and you were talking about you know the the last appraisals with commercial properties were were lower because of covet so we should see a substantial increase now because we've got a lot of companies moving into gaston county wanting property”
Board of Commissioners · Aug 25, 2026