Edgecombe County Commissioner’s Meeting Monday April 3, 2023 My Concerns

I arrived at the Edgecombe County Commissioner’s meeting on Monday April 3, 2023 and I had set up to livestream the meeting. I asked the other guy in the room was I in his way. He said yes. I said no I am not because where I am I would not be in front of you. He left the room and I am quite sure to go tell the County Manager Eric Evans.

When Eric came in the room he said I could not set up where I was because people would be using the area. What a lie. He said I need y’all to set up in the back of the room and that was a lie because the other guy was set up on the side of the room where he was last month March. Where he was set up block the aisle and no one can pass him.

Eric said we are trying to remodel the room to get it right and along with a better sound system.

I addressed the commissioners during the public comments about my concern and I said if you didn’t want me to set up over there just say it but there is no traffic and if it was it would only be the commissioners which is rare. Commissioner Viola Harris left the room to go out to talk to someone but that she would have had plenty of room to pay by me and she could have even walked behind me.

Board chair Leonard Wiggins said Eric had control over the room and he chooses where we could set up. I didn’t question that he had control over the meeting but what I do know is he lied about the folk passing through the area where I was set up.

I said my Clerk of Court Carol A. White was sitting on the side where the other guy was set up and when she got up to go swear in the council she had to get up exit to the back of the room and go out the door into the hallway and come in the front of the room. If the other guy was not set up in the aisle she would been able to get up and walk up the front.

Sitting up in the back of the room the sound is bad and I don’t like videoing the back of folk.

See the video for yourself.

My 2nd issue I addressed the commissioner’s after the meeting adjourned to go into closed session. I asked was Coach Tynesha Lewis Elizabeth City State University and/or her family notified about them presenting a resolution to her for her accomplishment of winning the CIAA Women’s Basketball Championship for the 1st time in the school’s history. Tynesha is from Macclesfield NC and played basketball at SouthWest Edgecombe High School, NC State University and then for several teams in the WNBA.

Commissioner Ralph Webb said he think she/family was notified and turned to ask the chair. Leonard said if she didn’t Tynesha didn’t know she knows now. I said the only way is if she is looking at my livestream because the other guy don’t livestream. Ain’t that a damn shame, that attitude. I bet if it had been somebody else, they would have made sure they were notified.

I said Tynesha family are in Macclesfield and her church is in Pinetops and they would have been here. Hell I bet Tynesha would have came home for the presentation.

I responded to the media email that I received on Friday with the monthly agenda and on Sunday when I read it to post on my page I noticed it had Tynesha’s last name incorrect. Eric said he seen that and made the correction on the resolution. Well if by the media sharing it and not receiving a correction with the last name, no one would have known who the real Tynesha was. I told him that she is my double cousin. My dad and her dad are 1st cousins on my dad’s dad side. My dad and her mother are 1st cousins on my dad’s moma side. So if there was a problem with contacting the family, then he could have asked me how to contact them. I said her dad is a Macclefield Town Commissioner.

This is just sad. The other guy that was videoing is White and I am Black. Tynesha is Black. I am just saying. Now somebody gone say it ain’t about race. Well where in the lie in the race of the people involved here?

Oh and by the way I video their meetings and don’t get paid because I do what I do out of pocket.

Watch the video for yourself by clicking on this link: Edgecombe County Commissioners Meeting Monday April 3, 2023

EDGECOMBE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE!

Chairman Leonard Wiggins has called a Special Meeting of the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners to be held on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 11:00 AM. The meeting will be held in the Carmon Auditorium of the County Administration Building, 201 St. Andrew St. Tarboro, NC 27886.

To protect public health and safety related to the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting will be limited to twenty (20) participants, not including board members, staff and guests. The public is may listen to the meeting and can do so by dialing 1(929) 205-6099, using the meeting ID 845-5123-9835 and the Passcode 884146.

The purpose of this Special Meeting is to review draft amendments to the County’s Unified Development Ordinance and to receive a COVID-19 update. For more information, contact Frangie Mungo, Clerk to the Board, at (252) 641-7834.

Leonard Wiggins, Chairman Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners