Pretty incredible story from the Rhino’s John Hammer, who covered last week’s Greensboro City Council work session:

The Greensboro City Council uses the Greensboro Partnership to launder money, according to what the council was told at its work session on Tuesday, Feb. 22.

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) and $30,000 goes to the Piedmont Triad Film Commission.

Dan Lynch, president of the GEDA, told the council Tuesday that the money was simply a pass-through. He said they were told to write a check for $25,000 to DGI and $30,000 to the film commission and he did, but he did not know why.

Remember that DGI is doing a little money laundering of its own, allocating $15,000 to the downtown homeless day shelter after some council members asked questions about the shelter’s operating expenses.

Of course the solution to this problem is simply to defund these organizations and repeal the downtown BID tax while they’re at it. But who on the council is going make that motion?