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Originally Posted by Rochard
I bet you your right.
My home town here in NorCal is pretty smart and pretty fair. They started merging positions that did similar things - They took two jobs that each made $80k a year, merged them together, and then reduced the pay to $70k - saving $90k per year.
In one respect we are lucky that we are a new town, and most of our parks are maintained by the HOA. However, the city recently announced that they were canceling both the July 4th parade and the fireworks. The parade is back on because most of the officers involved will be volunteers and the fireworks are on because a bunch of people got together and blanketed the small town with donation requests, and local businesses stepped up to pick up the tab.
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And I think that is the way it should be in many cases. If the people of a city really want a parade, they will find a way to make it happen and either get donations to pay for it or volunteers to work it and clean up after it. Same with the fireworks, if people really want them, cool, nothing wrong with collecting a few bucks in donations from a lot of different people and paying for it.
The town I grew up in started doing the same thing. They had fireworks every 4th of July and the it was nice display, but it was expensive. That town had a lot of people who lived out of town and would never see the fireworks. They complained about having to pay for them even though they never see them. Eventually the mayor caved in and got rid of them. The people who live in town took up collections and got them back (oddly enough at a huge discount, because as per normal the city was way overpaying) and everyone was happy.