Trustee Wes Westmoreland:
Trustee Wes Westmoreland was appointed by the Commissioners, His term expires in 2018. Trustee Westmoreland owns and operates Westmoreland Printers and is well respected in the business community. Westmoreland also served in the NC General Assembly as a Senator a few years back. Westmoreland is presently the Chairman of the Board at Pinnacle Classical Academy. Pinnacle Classical Academy is the first Charter School located in Cleveland County and has been wildly successful straight out of the gate. Pinnacle started in the old Hallelujah Acres Building and is now building for themselves a brand new school. A new school that is self financed and well managed without wasting taxpayer dollars like the current Cleveland County Board of Education.
We believe Wes Westmoreland should be elected as the Vice Chairman of the CCC Board of Trustees where Trustee Westmoreland’s talents and skills can best be used to promptly address the problems, cut through the red tape and do nothing tradition of previous CCC Boards and fix the various scandals that have taken over at CCC.
Trustee Jason Falls:
Trustee Jason Falls was appointed by the Commissioners to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of former Board Chairman Ellis Monroe. Trustee Falls is also a sitting County Commissioner himself. Falls term is listed to expire in 2020, which is questionable as former Trustee Ellis Monroe’s term expired this month-just like several others noted above. It’s like why didn’t the Commissioners go ahead and fill the terms of all the Trustees that expired this month. I have officially requested information from the Commissioners regarding the questionable appointment of Jason Falls under the Freedom of Information Act and North Carolina Public Records Laws but the Commissioners have not responded. This leads me to know something is amiss in all this, which is, unfortunately, typical of the whole batch of County Commissioners we have right now.
We have listed Trustee Jason last on this list of Trustees because he is probably the least trustworthy. Commissioner Falls has helped waste untold millions of taxpayer dollars over the past seven years and refuses to be fair and honest. Commissioner Falls appears to just consider what is best for his political career over everything else and has worked his political career onto a dead end street. “Fixing” his appointment until 2020 appears to be just a phony trick to keep Commissioner Falls unfairly associated with local government and to cover up for all the scandals that have been exposed on Falls’ watch.
However, the untrustworthy Trustee that is Jason Falls is now a Trustee and has apparently been given a mandate by the Commissioners, who have their own interests in this matter, to get rid of CCC President Steve Thornburg. Since Thornburg’s bad judgement, indiscretions, issues, scandals and problems have been exposed, Falls has accidentally found himself to be on the right side of straightening out, at least part of, the problem at CCC. For now we will have to do with that. Perhaps a new majority on the County Commissioners after the 2018 Elections will force Jason Falls into total retirement from politics altogether.
