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Published on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
THERE'S a reason why Los Angeles City Council members have been grappling for years with the controversial issue of waiving fees for special events without coming to a conclusion: They just can't win on it.
What council members have found is that though on the surface it makes sense to recoup the cost of providing police, traffic and other city services to special events, it doesn't actually make sense in many instances.
For example, if the city charged every event for all the fees it now waives, how many neighborhoods could afford the regular block parties, farmers markets, fairs, parades, rallies and other events that help build community in this sprawling city?
Very few, if any, would be able to pay the mysteriously calculated costs, printed in each City Council agenda, that are "waived" each meeting by council decree.
Yet time and again, the call for fee-waiver reform arises, often when the city falls upon tough financial times
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