BC- 3 Months and counting…Fireworks should be coming to your town commission….
‘With a bleak outlook on the budget, and orders from the new elected officials to stop all unnecessary spending, city staff are looking for some direction.
During the budget crisis of 2004, the fireworks display, only $35,000 back then, was recommended for cutting. Ernest Burkeen, parks director at the time, rationalized it this way: “If you actually stand on the beach you’ll see fireworks in Pompano, Hollywood, any number of places at the beach. If you’re providing something unique and different, it’s one thing … but you could stand in one place you can see them all the way down to Miami.”‘
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