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Resident criticizes board resolution on Capitol Boulevard funding as partisan
Summary
Matthew Recht, a Wake Forest resident, told commissioners he viewed a recent town resolution urging the General Assembly to fund Capitol Boulevard improvements as partisan and questioned the timing and past inaction.
Matthew Recht, a Wake Forest resident and taxpayer, used the meeting's public-comment period to criticize a town resolution urging the General Assembly to provide funding for Capitol Boulevard improvements.
"I've never really seen the Board of Commissioners pass resolutions telling other government agencies how to spend their money," Recht said. He told commissioners he was "very caught off guard" by the resolution and questioned why the town moved now to press the General Assembly when, he said, prior funding allocations had been shifted by the Department of Transportation without public objection. Recht said he viewed the timing of the resolution as politically motivated after the recent election of a state representative.
Recht identified the state representative by name, saying: "All of a sudden, last November, the people of House District 35 elected a new representative. ... His name is Mike Scheitzelp, that all of a sudden, the board of commissioners wants to have something done with the general assembly." He added: "I see this town board going down a path of partisan politics, and I think it's a darn shame."
The remarks were delivered during the public-comment period and did not prompt a board vote or formal action in the meeting record provided. The transcript does not record a response from commissioners to Recht's remarks in the segment provided.
