Reply to a comment  Reply to this comment  jward#392447 writes:
in response to Smart_One:  The only thing I would say is for the
city to work on reducing/waiving the permit fees for these non-
profit events downtown. I'm not really sure if these fees were
the cause of these events being stopped or if it goes much
deeper than that. But I do think the city should look into it
and show their support of these events...  I appreciate the
comment on reducing fees, etc. and would respond that there are
often fairly significant costs attached for providing the
support for these events which are invisible costs to the
attendees but cost the City in equipment and staff costs. The
best example is, who do you think cleans up and carries off all
of the trash and debris after each of these things? Public Works
staffers, usually being paid overtime, because many of these
events happen at night or weekends. Big public events require a
police presence,unfortunately, and there's a cost attached to
each police officer. In an er