Please provide records showing whether Mayor Marikay Abuzuaiter or any other Council member recused themselves from either of the two recent closed sessions concerning City Attorney Lora C. Cubbage’s ethics issues, performance review or compensation.

For each session, please provide records identifying who recused themselves, any stated reason for recusal, and whether anyone left or reentered the session during the discussion. Please include any records showing whether a recusal applied to deliberations, a vote, or both.

This request includes the relevant portions of closed-session written notices or communications documenting recusals.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 10-07-2026 10:42

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36890.

Please provide the following public records concerning the revised City of Greensboro ethics policy adopted February 3, 2026, under Resolution 027-26, and any subsequent amendments:

1. All drafts, redlines, tracked changes, and final versions of the policy, including available document metadata identifying authors, editors, and creation and modification dates.
2. Records identifying who requested, proposed, drafted, edited, reviewed, or approved the changes, including City staff, Council members, and outside attorneys or consultants.
3. All emails, attachments, text messages, memoranda, and other communications concerning the policy’s development, review, and adoption, including communications involving the Mayor, City Council, City Attorney, City Manager, and outside counsel.
4. Records explaining or discussing the changes concerning independent investigations, the City Attorney’s authority to dismiss complaints without an independent investigation, and whether the City Attorney is covered by the policy.
5. Records discussing how the changes would apply to pending or anticipated ethics complaints, including complaints involving officials participating in the policy’s drafting, review, or adoption.
6. All related meeting materials, presentations, staff recommendations, minutes, and records of votes, recusals, or disclosed conflicts of interest.
7. Any outside counsel engagement letters, contracts, scope-of-work documents, invoices, and payments related to the policy.

Please search from the earliest work on these revisions through the date this request is processed. Please provide records electronically and drafts in their original electronic format where available, preserving metadata and tracked changes.

If any records are withheld or redacted, please identify the records or portions withheld and the specific legal basis for each withholding. Please provide any reasonably separable portions and release responsive records as they become available.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 10-07-2026 10:32

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36889.

Dear Public Records Staff,

Please provide electronic copies of existing records concerning the costs and funding of the West Friendly Avenue Booster Pump Station and Water System Improvements project, including the booster station and the proposed water-main upgrade from Green Valley Road to New Garden Road.

Please provide:

1. Current cost estimates: The latest total project estimate and supporting breakdowns for the booster station and water-main upgrade, including design, engineering, land acquisition, demolition, easements, construction, construction administration, contingency and financing costs.
2. Contracts and authorizations: The executed Stantec design contract, scope of work, fee schedule, amendments and associated Council resolutions or other approvals. Please also provide other contracts awarded for this project.
3. Budget and funding records: Project budgets, capital improvement plan entries, appropriations and amendments identifying funding sources, including utility revenues, borrowing, grants, developer contributions or reimbursements.
4. Spending and commitments: Existing expenditure reports or accounting records showing amounts paid and outstanding commitments for the project, including the property purchased in 2013 and demolition performed in 2019.
5. Changes in estimated cost: Earlier estimates and existing records explaining revisions to project scope or cost, including any reconciliation with the $2,281,590 West Friendly Avenue booster station figure in the 2018 system development fee study.
6. Development-related costs: Existing studies, agreements or cost-allocation records identifying the economic development projects this infrastructure will support and any portions of the cost assigned to, paid by or reimbursable from those developers or other entities.

Please provide spreadsheets in their native electronic format where available. This request seeks existing records and does not ask the City to create a new report. Please provide responsive records as they become available and notify me before incurring any charges.

Thank you,

George Hartzman

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 10-04-2026 09:57

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36839.

Real Estate Brokers, Developers and Governments planning for unlikely promised growth.

Subject: Public records request — December 18, 2025 Audit Committee meeting minutes

Please provide the approved minutes for the City of Greensboro Audit Committee meeting held Thursday, December 18, 2025, at 10:30 a.m. in the Legislative Conference Room.

If the minutes have not been approved, please provide any draft minutes. If no minutes were prepared, please let me know and provide any meeting recording or transcript that exists.

Meeting listing: https://pub-greensboro-nc.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=ff6dbe79-48ce-4fa5-ad74-69e695a164b7

Please provide the records electronically.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 09:08

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36732.

Please provide the following existing records concerning Samet Corporation’s work on the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck, from January 1, 2023, through November 22, 2024:

Samet’s February 9, 2024 repair proposal, including all attachments, cost estimates, schedules, revisions, and communications transmitting or responding to it.

The contract, purchase orders, work orders, amendments, invoices, payment records, and deliverables associated with the work authorized by City Council on November 21, 2023, under Resolution 284-23, for up to $1.5 million in shoring and testing.

All testing plans, field notes, measurements, raw data, laboratory reports, engineering analyses, and final results produced by or for Samet concerning the deck. Please include records showing whether the proposed load testing of three top-level inverted-tee girders was authorized or performed.

Communications and records documenting the City’s decisions to approve, modify, defer, or decline the February 9 repair proposal, the proposed three-girder load test, or other recommended structural or material testing.

Records of the February 23, 2024 site meeting between Samet and City representatives, including attendees, notes, photographs, and follow-up communications.

Samet’s June 26, 2024 letter refers to its February 9 proposal and February 23 site visit. Please search the records of Engineering and Inspections, Facilities, Transportation/Parking, the City Manager’s Office, and the City’s project files, including correspondence with Samet and SKA.

Please provide electronic copies. If any requested records were previously supplied under request #29807, you may identify those records rather than send duplicates. If the City has no records showing that the three-girder load test was performed, please say so; I am requesting existing records, not a new analysis.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 09:03

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36731.

Thank you,

George Hartzman

Public Records Request: Bellemeade Parking Deck Repair and Demolition Decision

Please provide existing records dated December 1, 2022, through November 22, 2024, concerning the structural condition of the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck and the City’s decision to demolish it.

This request includes:

1. Emails, text messages, memoranda, meeting invitations, agendas, notes, and attachments exchanged among City Engineering and Inspections, Transportation/Parking, the City Manager’s Office, and Samet Corporation, SKA Consulting Engineers, Kimley-Horn, and Walter P. Moore about inspections, testing, shoring, repair, partial removal, continued use, closure, or full demolition.
2. All repair proposals, scopes, bids, estimates, schedules, and cost comparisons considered by the City, including Samet’s February 9, 2024 repair proposal and any subsequent revisions. Please include estimates of the cost and expected remaining service life for each alternative considered.
3. Records evaluating or responding to Samet’s June 26, 2024 letter, including its transmittal, internal circulation, staff comments, and any requests for additional engineering work.
4. Records documenting who recommended full demolition and how that recommendation was approved, including decision memoranda, presentations, briefing materials, and communications with City Manager Trey Davis.
5. Drafts, review comments, approvals, and supporting records for the City’s November 22, 2024 announcement stating that further investment in the deck was not cost effective.

Please search the records of the named City departments and officials, including City email, City-issued phones and messaging systems, project files, and records received from the engineering firms or Samet. Provide attachments with their associated communications where available.

This request supplements request #29807, which produced the September 10, 2024 Kimley-Horn memo and October 3, 2024 Walter P. Moore peer review but did not include Samet’s June 26, 2024 letter. Please avoid duplicating those two records unless they contain annotations or attachments not previously supplied. If responsive records have already been released under another request, please identify that request and provide a way to access the records.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 08:40

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36730.

Please provide all records in the City of Greensboro’s possession supporting or verifying the $22,736,339 in “Total ESH Project Costs” stated in the 2021 agreement with Elm Street Hotel LLC as incurred through June 30, 2021. This includes itemized cost schedules; invoices and payment applications; proof of payment; land acquisition and demolition costs; design, permitting, financing, and predevelopment costs; audits or cost certifications; and City staff analyses, correspondence, and approvals concerning the amount.

Please also provide any reconciliation showing which of those costs the City accepted when calculating the City’s share or applying any contractual limit on City costs. If the City has no supporting or verification records for the stated amount, please identify any existing records documenting how the amount was obtained and incorporated into the agreement.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 08:25

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36729.

Please provide existing records concerning the proposed disposition of the former Bellemeade Street Parking Deck property at 220 N. Greene Street to Park Side Capital, Park Lot LLC, The Carroll Companies, or an affiliate, from January 1, 2024, through the date this request is processed.

I request the executed agreement and amendments; appraisals and appraisal instructions; analyses of the proposed sale or land exchange; records supporting the public estimate that creating a City-operated surface parking lot would cost more than $800,000; projected construction, operating, and maintenance costs and parking revenue under City and private operation; records of demolition expenditures; and records documenting any cash payment or exchange of land.

Please also provide records showing whether and when the property was conveyed, including any executed deed, closing statement, and payment record, if a closing occurred. Include the provisions and supporting records establishing how the proposed $50 million redevelopment commitment is measured, its deadlines, and the City’s remedies if it is not met.

Please provide responsive records electronically. If records are withheld or redacted, please identify the applicable statutory basis and release the nonexempt portions.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 01:00

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36728.

Please provide existing records dated January 1, 2023, through February 18, 2025, concerning the cost and feasibility of repairing or continuing to operate the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck at 220 N. Greene Street.

Specifically, I request: (1) Samet’s February 9, 2024 repair proposal based on SKA’s Option 2A, including its price, scope, assumptions, and attachments; (2) Samet estimates, budgets, schedules, and constructability assessments for each repair or preservation option in SKA’s January 5, 2024 study; (3) later repair estimates and City analyses comparing repair, continued operation, closure, and demolition; and (4) structural assessments, concrete testing results, laboratory reports, extracted-core results, and materials testing completed after SKA’s April 19, 2024 recommendation for a comprehensive assessment.

Please include records supporting the City’s conclusion that repair was not cost-effective, including projected remaining service life and anticipated maintenance costs. If the recommended comprehensive assessment was not completed, please provide any existing records documenting the decision not to commission or complete it.

Please provide responsive records electronically. If records are withheld or redacted, please identify the applicable statutory basis and release the nonexempt portions.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 00:58

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36727.

Please provide existing records dated January 1, 2023, through June 3, 2025, concerning a possible sale, exchange, lease, surface parking operation, or redevelopment of the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck property at 220 N. Greene Street involving Roy Carroll, The Carroll Companies, Park Side Capital, Park Lot LLC, or their representatives.

This includes emails and attachments, correspondence, meeting invitations and notes, proposals, offers, term sheets, draft agreements, and records documenting the earliest contact about acquiring or using the property. Please search records maintained by the City Manager’s Office, Assistant City Manager Andrea Harrell, Transportation, Facilities, Engineering and Inspections, and Economic Development.

Please provide responsive records electronically. If records are withheld or redacted, please identify the applicable statutory basis and release the nonexempt portions.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 00:57

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36726.

Subject: Bellemeade and Eugene Street decks — communications among Samet, Carroll interests, DGI, and the City

Please provide electronic copies of existing records dated January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2025, concerning the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck, its demolition or disposition, or the nearby Eugene Street Parking Deck, exchanged among or documenting meetings involving City officials or employees and any of the following: Samet Corporation or its representatives; Roy Carroll, Carroll Companies, Park Side Capital, or Park Lot LLC and their representatives; and Downtown Greensboro Inc. or Zack Matheny.

Please include emails and attachments, City-business text messages, calendar invitations, meeting agendas and notes, presentations, proposals, and correspondence concerning:

• Bellemeade’s condition, testing, shoring, repair options, closure, or demolition;
• the timing, terms, or proposed recipient of the Bellemeade property disposition;
• parking capacity or access associated with the Eugene Street deck or Carroll’s nearby development; and
• any discussion of whether Bellemeade’s demolition or transfer would affect that development.

Please search the records of the City Manager, Transportation, Facilities, Engineering and Inspections, Property Management, and City Attorney’s offices, as well as responsive City Council records. This request includes existing communications with outside parties; it does not ask the City to obtain records held solely by those parties. Please provide records on a rolling basis and identify the statutory basis for any withholding or redaction.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 00:36

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36725.

Subject: Bellemeade deck — repair, demolition, and property-disposition decision records

Please provide electronic copies of existing records dated January 1, 2023, through June 30, 2025, concerning the Bellemeade Street Parking Deck at 220 N. Greene Street:

1. Staff analyses, presentations, estimates, appraisals, and recommendations comparing continued operation, repair, removal of only the top level, full demolition, and sale of the property as-is.
2. Documents showing when and by whom the decision to close and demolish the deck was proposed, recommended, approved, and communicated to Council.
3. Records showing how the City evaluated the repair options in SKA’s January 5, 2024 study and Kimley-Horn’s September 10 and Walter P Moore’s October 3, 2024 reports. Include any request for repair bids and any decision not to seek them.
4. Records identifying when Park Side Capital, Park Lot LLC, Carroll Companies, Roy Carroll, or their representatives first expressed interest in acquiring or redeveloping the deck property, and all proposals, offers, term sheets, drafts, and negotiations concerning its disposition.
5. Records concerning whether the City considered selling or conveying the deck before demolition, including estimates of demolition costs under each alternative.

Please include responsive emails, attachments, meeting notes, text messages concerning City business, and records held by the Transportation, Facilities, Engineering and Inspections, Property Management, City Manager’s, and City Attorney’s offices. I request existing records, not a newly prepared explanation. Please produce available records on a rolling basis and identify the statutory basis for any withholding or redaction.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 00:34

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36724.

Subject: Public records request — Bellemeade Parking Deck shoring, testing results, and Samet payments

Under the North Carolina Public Records Law, I request electronic copies of the following existing records concerning the former Bellemeade Street Parking Deck at 220 N. Greene Street, from December 1, 2022, through June 30, 2025:

1. All purchase orders, contracts, amendments, scopes of work, proposals, task orders, and notices to proceed issued to Samet Corporation for temporary shoring, concrete testing, testing coordination, or repair planning at the deck. This includes the January 2023 emergency purchase order and work under Resolution 284-23, agenda item 2023-798, which authorized purchase orders not to exceed $1.5 million.
2. All Samet invoices, supporting subcontractor invoices, payment applications, approvals, check or electronic payment records, credits, voids, and reissued payments for that work. Please include the project expenditure ledger showing each charge, payment date, purchase order number, and account or project code.
3. All results of testing performed or coordinated under these purchase orders, including final and draft reports, laboratory results, raw measurements and data tables, concrete core and chloride test results, petrographic analyses, load tests if performed, sampling locations, field notes, photographs, and communications transmitting or interpreting the results. Please include records identifying the laboratory or subcontractor that performed each test.
4. The shoring designs, installation and inspection records, monitoring readings, adjustment logs, and records of any additional shoring requested or installed after SKA’s April 19, 2024 recommendation concerning the damaged double-tee supports.
5. Samet’s February 9, 2024 repair proposal, including its price and supporting estimates, and records showing the City’s review or disposition of that proposal.

To help locate the payment records, the City’s treasury reports list Samet under the Parking Facilities Capital Project Fund, including check 469786 ($135,998, March 9, 2023), 474497 ($37,512.57, July 7, 2023), 475187 ($67,236, July 21, 2023), and recurring entries described as “Concrete Testing” or “Concrete Testing Coordination” through at least April 2025. Please include related payments even if they appear under another vendor name, account, or amount below the treasury report’s listing threshold.

This request seeks existing records and does not ask the City to create an analysis. Please provide records on a rolling basis as they become available. If any portion is withheld or redacted, please identify the record and the statutory basis for the withholding, and provide the remaining nonexempt portions.

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-27-2026 00:26

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36723.

Under the North Carolina Public Records Act, G.S. Chapter 132, please provide the following existing records concerning the City’s voluntary, City-initiated Central Business (CB) rezoning initiative for properties adjacent to, within, or near the Downtown Greenway:

1. All submissions received through the City’s “Request to Rezone to CB Zoning” form, including the submission date, property identified, information entered by the submitter, and any attachments.
2. Emails, letters, meeting requests, notes, and other records documenting inquiries from property owners, their representatives, developers, or other interested parties about participating in the initiative, whether received through the form or directly by City staff or officials.
3. Records of the City’s outreach to potentially eligible property owners, including mailing or contact lists, form letters, emails, notices, and records showing which owners were contacted and when.
4. The list, spreadsheet, map, or other records identifying the approximately 100 properties described as eligible for the initiative, including parcel numbers and the criteria used to identify them.
5. Written owner consents received to date and records identifying properties for which the City has begun, scheduled, or decided to begin a rezoning application.

Please search records from January 1, 2026, through the date this request is processed, including records maintained by the Planning Department and Zoning Administrator Mike Kirkman. Please provide electronic records in their existing format, including spreadsheets where available. If any portion is withheld, please identify the record and the legal basis for withholding it. If this request would benefit from narrowing, please contact me before excluding responsive records.

Thank you,

George Hartzman

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-26-2026 08:53

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36717.

Under the North Carolina Public Records Act, please provide the following records for public records requests #35287, #35289, #35290, #35298, #35299, #35303, #35306, #35311, #35312, #35313 and #35319:

1. The original requests as submitted, and all portal entries, status changes, staff notes and closure notes for each request, including the date and time each was closed and the name or title of the person who closed it.
2. All communications among the City Clerk's Office, public records staff, the City Attorney's Office and any other City department or outside counsel about the receipt, routing, processing or closure of these requests. This includes any decision to handle them through discovery in Hartzman v. City of Greensboro (26CV014985-400).
3. Any records showing which documents, if any, were identified as responsive to each request. This includes search terms, search logs, custodian lists, production logs, Bates ranges, or any index linking a discovery production to a request number.
4. Any records reflecting a determination that no responsive records exist for any of these requests.
5. Any records reflecting a decision to withhold or redact responsive records, including the statutory basis relied on.
6. Any City policy, procedure, guidance or practice, written or electronic, on handling public records requests submitted by a party to pending litigation against the City.

Date range: from the date of the earliest listed request to the present.

For any record withheld in whole or in part, please identify the record and cite the specific statutory authority, redacting only the exempt portion. Please produce records on a rolling basis as they become available.

This request is separate from, and does not replace, my request of August 27, 2026, that each of these requests be re-entered as a new request and answered on the merits.

Thank you,

George Hartzman

City of Greensboro Public Records Request Tracking System

Date/Time Requested: 09-25-2026 12:41

Your request has been submitted and is public records request # 36710.