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Public alleges commissioner benefited from airport contract; commissioner denies impropriety
Summary
A resident alleged a commissioner profited from a $3 million airport project and cited a North Carolina statute; the commissioner denied wrongdoing and the board requested records and later approved hiring outside counsel for a related sheriff matter. The county did not resolve the allegation at the meeting.
During the public-comment portion of the Dec. 1 Rockingham County meeting, a local resident, Doug Easley, told commissioners his public-records requests show that a county commissioner ‘‘had done a project for Shiloh Airport totaling $3,000,000’’ and that the commissioner had no vendor information on file with the county, which Easley said suggested a conflict of interest. Easley cited "North Carolina general 14 2 34" as the legal basis for his concern and asked the board to adopt a policy preventing elected officials or their businesses from doing county work.
Easley said the allegation was rooted in public records he had reviewed and framed it as a public-trust issue: "When elected officials profit…
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