Jones Street, where the state’s Department of Administration now resides.
Some of you probably did, but I didn’t know about it until I saw on WRAL that the university was going to move.” The new campus is proposed for 116 W. And I don’t think many of you knew about it. So it is my opinion that the move from here to Raleigh was done purely on the basis of politics. “So you don’t find out about it for several days because of the size of the budget. “When you have a special provision, it is something so controversial that the people putting the special provision in the budget do not want it to go to a committee,” Daughtry said. That tells you what you need to know about it, Daughtry said. The plan and funding were tucked into a special provision in the budget and rammed though without public debate - either at the General Assembly or on the Board of Governors, whose members say they weren’t consulted. That department would be relocated to a newly proposed state executive headquarters. Jones St., where the state’s Department of Administration now resides. The bill proposes building the new campus at 116 W. It also lays out plans and provides funding for a future $180 million downtown Education Campus to include the Department of Commerce, Department of Public Instruction, Community Colleges System and UNC System offices. The budget item appropriates $15 million toward leasing space in Raleigh over the next four years.
Roy Cooper Monday, mandates the move before July 1, 2023. The move has been talked about for more than a decade and seemed closer than ever to reality last year when the state budget allocated $1.8 million to study the possibility of moving to a new building complex the budget earmarked another $11.4 million related to planning and design related to the move.īut the most recent budget bill, signed into law by Gov. In May, he denounced the planned move to Raleigh for a lack of transparency and bemoaned the trend toward politicization of the system he said it represents. I said what I needed to say.”ĭaughtry was a long-time GOP leader in both the state Senate and House before his service on the Board of Governors. “I’m off that board now and I don’t want to be critical. “It was time for me to move on,” Daughtry said. But he stands by his concerns about the relocation to Raleigh. In a phone interview, Daughtry declined to address whether political conflict was at the heart of his change in appointment. The change, part of a political appointments bill passed at the end of the legislative session, was probably inevitable after Daughtry said publicly something a number of board members privately say they also believe: The plan to move the UNC System offices to downtown Raleigh is expensive, ill-considered and motivated primarily by politics. He will be replaced by Lee Barnes, CEO of the Family Fare chain of stores, who was chosen by lawmakers to finish Daughtry’s term, which runs to 2025. But House leaders offered him a spot on the transportation board and he believed it was time to leave the Board of Governors. It wasn’t a move he sought, Daughtry told Policy Watch last week. Board of Governors member Leo Daughtry (Photo: Screen grab from UNC BoG meeting/UNC)Īfter six years on the UNC Board of Governors, Leo Daughtry is moving to the North Carolina State Board of Transportation.
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