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Originally Posted by Vin
Conclusion from all the comments:
1. City of Vancouver is dirt poor
2. The city can never garner any big corporate sponsors since we don't really have any
3. The only sizeable companies are developers but drawing out something from their CECs: hell no!
4. Small public events should not be tolerated: only big ones that cost millions
You guys are something. We shall continue to remain a boring city then.
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I just don't believe that half a million dollars, or a portion, should be extracted from our CACs (which I'd imagine would take a long time to legal change the City's ability to use it for a new years party) for an event, of which, most monies would go towards police and security.
I was at the Halloween event at Britannia... thousands of people, didn't cost $500k, hardly a cop in sight pulling over-time hours. We can do events real easy without the big government handout. It is run every year by the Dust Flowerpot Cabaret, a non-profit that gets some grants to run as an arts society, and the Halloween event had a lot of volunteers and run off donations.
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