Stokes County Commissioners take action on school projects: Three major decisions are made at Monday’s meeting

(By Leslie Bray Evans, The Stokes News) - After months of discussion and stalemates between the Stokes County Board of Commissioners and the Stokes County Board of Education, the wheels of progress are turning at last. Commissioners finally took action on three major school projects at their meeting on Monday afternoon—buying PODS for Nancy Reynolds Elementary students, acquiring land adjacent to Nancy Reynolds, and purchasing land for a new school in the Yadkin Township.

Commissioner Stanley Smith had used one of his trademark colloquialisms at a previous meeting to describe the pace of government. “It’s like the definition of a soap opera—the only place it takes a woman 13 months to deliver a premature baby.”

When the votes were finally cast at Monday’s meeting, Bill Hart, chairman of the board of education, was relieved, “It really is good to feel like something’s happening.”...

...[Leon] Inman picked up the ball again, commenting on the recent economic downturn, “We’ve got to be prudent. . .When it comes to education, I’m not afraid to increase taxes.” He continued, however, with the assertion that he cannot do that when the economy is in a “freefall.”