The Core Team will be responsible for managing and directing the planning process.
Members represent major economic stakeholders will thoroughly examine and develop specific draft proposals and recommendations.
The group will also serve to lead advocacy efforts to implement projects from the plan into the future.
The Core Group will generally meet on a monthly basis.
Notables:
Skip AlstonGuilford County
Roy Carroll, (taxpayer funded) Greensboro Partnership Board Member,
(taxpayer funded) Triad Partnership Board Member,
employer of Al Leonard, (taxpayer funded) DGI Board Member
The Carroll Companies
Dan Curry
City of Greensboro
Dick Hails
City of Greensboro
April Harris
Action Greensboro
Bill Knight, (taxpayer funded) DGI Board Member
taxpayer funded) Piedmont Triad Partnership Board Member
City of Greensboro
Afrique Kilimanjaro
Carolina Peacemaker
Ed Kitchen, (taxpayer funded) Greensboro Partnership Board Member
(taxpayer funded) Piedmont Triad Partnership Board Member
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation
Michael Schiftan, (taxpayer funded) DGI Board Member
Devcon Resources
Andy Scott
City of Greensboro
Mac Sims
East Market Street Development Corp
DGI operates on a $1.1 million budget.
The money comes from three sources.
Half comes from a special 9-cent tax levied on downtown property owners;
(from taxes levied on customers, otherwise known as taxpayers)
30 percent is tax money
30 percent is tax money
from the general fund of the city of Greensboro and Guilford County;
and 20 percent comes through fundraising.
Ed Wolverton
Downtown Greensboro Inc.
Guess who “likely” meets quarterly?
Advisory Team
The Advisory Team will be responsible for bringing additional viewpoints and perspectives to the planning process.
The team will also be charged with communicating and engaging residents from throughout the entire community about the planning effort.
As such, members represent a wide spectrum of direct and indirect stakeholders.
The Team will serve to evaluate draft recommendations and identify potential community concerns and issues.
The group will likely meet on a quarterly basis.
Notables:
Pat Danahy
(taxpayer funded) Greensboro Partnership
(taxpayer funded) Piedmont Triad Partnership Board Member
Larry Davis
City of Greensboro
Betsey Grant
Greensboro Children’s Museum
Willie Hammer
Rhino Times
Brenda Jones Fox, DGI Board Member
Guilford County
Rick Lusk
City of Greensboro
Ed Mathews
WFMY, whose Deborah Hooper
is a (taxpayer funded) Greensboro Partnership Board Member
Robin Saul, (taxpayer funded) Greensboro Partnership Board Member
News & Record
Susan Schwartz, (taxpayer funded) DGI Board Member,
(taxpayer funded) Greensboro Partnership Board Member,
and (soon to be taxpayer funded) Children's Museum Board Member
Cemala Foundation
Rashad Young, (taxpayer funded) DGI Board Member
City of Greensboro"
http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/B99BBD6F-CA3C-4FF7-BDBF-BC871E388280/0/DowntownAreaConsolidatedPlanCommittees.pdf
2 comments:
Hey small businesses looking to relocate to Greensboro, please come, but know that you have no chance of getting any good business because DGI, the Greensboro Partnership and the Triad Partnership already have it sown up cause they bought and are in bed with the politians!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
carolina peacemaker should never be a part of the process with the crap and total lies coming out of this newspaper
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