LA rains on Valley’s Fourth of July parade, again – Latest News
Oops, they did it again.
Here we’re, on the eve of the US semiquincentennial, and LA officers proceed to load bills and uncertainty on a Fourth of July parade within the San Fernando Valley.
Last month, Mayor Karen Bass’ workplace balked at overlaying the associated fee of site visitors control and road closures for the parade –– for the primary time within the occasion’s more than 50-year historical past.
Now, the town may tack on $5K for “no parking” indicators together with different sundry bills.
The Los Angeles Independence Day parade attracts households who say attending has been a custom for a long time. Lydia Grant
How a lot, precisely? No one is aware of.
Parade organizers, who’ve rallied to fundraise so the show can go on, say the town’s payments are simply estimates; that they don’t know how a lot the entire shebang will value; and –– get this –– that Bass’ workplace even recommended altering the date of the parade to avoid wasting money.
This is silly-season stuff.
Change the date of a Fourth of July parade? To when, precisely?
The metropolis finds $20,000 too steep a value? Get actual. That’s about 0.0001% of LA’s $15 billion funds for the approaching fiscal yr.
The parade has been a half of the group for more than 50 years. Lydia Grant
And LA waits till the eleventh hour to tug the rug, or the road closure funds, out from beneath the parade? And: Even at this late date, it could’t or gained’t present a dependable stock of prices? Ridiculous.
If metropolis brass meant to stiff the beloved Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade –– be it out of parsimony or political pique on the nation’s 250th birthday blowout –– it ought to have leveled with organizers months in the past.
It’s nearly as if Bass and a lunatic faction of socialists on the City Council don’t need this parade to occur.
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It’s nearly as in the event that they don’t just like the USA (at the same time as they “lead” a swath of it).
It’s nearly as in the event that they’d slightly spite President Donald Trump –– and his grand, dramatic and patriotic semiquincentennial blowout –– than help the town’s own residents stage a parade, get pleasure from custom and have a good time a particular national milestone.
It wouldn’t be the primary time petty political animus held sway.
Also this yr, the California Coastal Commission, a notoriously intrusive far-left panel, successfully pressured the cancellation of a long-running July 4 fireworks show in Long Beach.
Commissioners claimed that beginning this yr (not subsequent yr or final yr or another yr however the nation’s 250th), a 15- or 20-minute fireworks show would merely trigger an excessive amount of coastal air pollution –– a laughable notion in a main port metropolis the place cargo ships foul the surroundings on daily basis.
LA’s declare that out of the blue, this yr, $20K is an excessive amount of to bear, is no much less flimsy.
It appears, in truth, that there won’t be any “oops” about it. City officers should not that harmless.
