WRRB/Telegram District City Council Forum 10/18
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today. Format: 14 total questions, 4 questions across districts (for all
candida...
6 months ago
3 comments:
Bill, FWIW, I dont care about Tennis !!!!!! That's for Hand It Over Theatre crowd. :)
What I am intersted in at the moment is the Summer Nat'ls crowd.
Yesterday (6-23) Clive reports that Bob Mosco laments....."the high parking fees the city charges independently for the event". I am not so sure where or how the city charges these high fees? Maybe Mosco has to pay a fee to teh city based on how many cars enter Grenhill Park and he has to pass it on as part of the admission fee? I mean it is a "park"....right?
Anyway the city (per previous T&G stories) has no problem giving the Hand It Over Theatre patrons discounted parking at Fed'l Sq gararge, yet the greasy fingernails crowd gets stung by the city for "high fees" associated with Summer Nationals parking. The summer nationals parking is usually a 3 day affair that allegedly brings 200,000 motorheads to Worc on the 4th of July weeknd when the city is 1/3 empty, yet the Hand It Over Theatre gets reduced parking 24/7/365.
This reprehensible and discriminatory, esp when it is Worcester citizens who are paying these high parking fees and it gives new meaning the name "Green" Hill "Park".
I'll betcha if a non profit cancer, heart disease, or community dev'ment organization wanted to use the park in a similar fashion (public gatehring), that the city wouldnt charge them "high fees" for parking
BTW I was at Green Hill last weekend, only at clubhouse area. The place looks really nice with the new roadway through it. Clubhouse has been painted and looks nice. No more underage, huge college beer parties up there on the first warm spring weekend :( Parking was free in those days at Green Hill...underage college drinking is deemed a non profit social gathering:)............but no throwing cherry bombs in the buffalo pens....!!!!!!!
I will reiterate it again for about the 10th time (no pun intended), whenever I have parked in the Federal Square garage to attend a show at the Hanover Theater, the cost to park was $10. How exactly is this discounted parking?
David when the Hand It Over Theatre opened the T&G reported that not only was there to be discounted parking, but the city also spent copious amts of money giving teh Fed'l Sq garage a make over and a clean up. I am going to see if I can dig up the article.
Then of course there is the millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies the Hand It Over Theatre was given to re-hab the place. Yes, it is certainly a grand looking palace. What subsidies if any, does the Summer Nat'ls get? I can assure you it is not in the millions of dollars. Then the Hand Over Theatre after rec'ing millions in subsidies from the taxpayers had the absolute, unmitiged gall and the biggest cahonnes this side of the Mississippi to file for non profit status, in the process putting the wood to the taxpayers of Worc to the tune of 100's of thousand of dollars.
Again what is good for the Artsy crowd s/b good for the motor head crowd. For the record, I am not a motorhead. If the Hand it Over Theatre wanted to stage an outdoor, summertime play or musical in Memorial Grove, I can assure you the city would give them special considerations that they would not give to Musco for his Summer Nationals. My point is that so called non profits receive too much preferential treatment in Woostah.
How would you feel if you ran a threatre business and the tax payer subsidies to the The Hand It Over Theatre, cost you your business and your job?
Lastly, they still have not brought their tax paying restaurant to fruition yet, either.
Just think about it, if IAFF's dreams come through (rain on Julio 2, 3, 4,) the Summer Nationals will be bust... :(
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