Did Downtown Greensboro Inc. get $250,000 to fund $25,000 grants that will most likely benefit Downtown Greensboro Inc's members?

"...The Greensboro City Council uses the Greensboro Partnership to launder money...

The council allocates $200,000 to the Partnership
to be used by the Greensboro Economic Development Alliance (GEDA),
but of that money $25,000 goes to Downtown Greensboro Inc. (DGI)...

Dan Lynch, president of the GEDA, told the council
...they were told to write a check for $25,000 to DGI
...but he did not know why.

...The council has been told repeatedly
that DGI gets the downtown Business Improvement District (BID) money,
which is revenue from an additional 9 cent property tax paid by downtown property owners,
and that it also receives two allocations – one of $90,000 and the other for $155,000 –
directly from the city.

What the council had not been told until Tuesday was that DGI
also receives a pass-through of $25,000 from the Partnership.

...One of the more interesting statistics listed
was that GEDA had recruited and retained 1,555 jobs in the past year.

Unfortunately that does not include the 1,500 jobs that were lost
when American Express decided to close its call center."

John
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Notable Downtown Greensboro Contributors

Greensboro Partnership, $25,000.00

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Should Downtown Greensboro Inc. use taxpayer dollars

to lobby the City of Greensboro for more taxpayer dollars?

Triad Watch

Thursday, May 20, 2010

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Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, $11,000.00

Cemala Foundation, $10,000.00

Bell Foundation (Steven D. Bell), $5,000.00

Brown Investment Properties, $1,500.00

Greensboro Regional Realtors Association, $1,210.00

Cone, Elizabeth W., $1,000.00

Elm Street Center, LLC, $1,000.00

The Carroll Companies, $550.00

Milton Kern & Co., Inc., $250.00

Signature Property Group, Inc., $250.00

Schwartz, Susan, $125.00

Brown III, Chester H. & Martha, $100.00

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He who oppresses the poor to make more for himself

or who gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.

Proverbs 22:16

Notable Downtown Greensboro Board Members

Brenda Jones Fox, Guilford County
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Mayor Bill Knight

Rashad Young, City of Greensboro

Mike Winstead, Guilford County Commissioner, TREBIC

Dan Lynch, President of the Greensboro Partnership
Greensboro Economic Development Alliance,
whose board members include Linda Shaw and Nancy Vaughan

Betty Cone, who worked for former Mayor Johnson’s campaign

Susan Schwartz, board member of the Children’s Museum,
which is in line to receive $100,000 in Greensboro’s 2010/11 budget.

Milton Kern

Better is a little with righteousness
than great income with injustice.

Proverbs 16:8

Seth Coker, Signature Property Group, TREBIC
who’s partner Frank Auman is a major political campaign contributor.

The art of government

consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of citizens

to give to the other

Voltaire

Henri Fourrier, President/CEO/Director of Marketing/Communications
Greensboro Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

The same Henri Fourrier

who sold Greensboro’s electorate on an Aquatic Center

with a non-independent, non third party “hypothetical”

that will most likely cost Greensboro millions

in principal, interest, operating and maintenance costs?

E. Durant Bell, Bell & Company, Zack Matheny’s employer
 

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation

the first thing to be bought and sold are legislators

P J O'Rourke

Kimberly Brown

Chester Brown, TREBIC

George House, Downtown Hotel,
Partner Randall Kaplan is a Greensboro Partnership board member

John Lomax, TREBIC
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Al Leonard, Carroll Companies, TREBIC
who works for Roy E. Carroll III, a major campaign contributor

and board member of the Greensboro Partnership