Re If Both Sides Agree to Concessions, Car Show Looks Like a Cinch
Why is it that the real numbers and the real story are not told about the Car Show?
The expenses requested by the city include $9,000 for already salaried employees who, for most of the hours billed, need not attend the event.
They also forget that the Car Show is the single biggest visibility event produced in Culver City, bringing thousands of consumers into Downtown at an economically crunching time when any commercial area would kill for that kind of foot traffic.
And where is the Chamber of Commerce?.
The Car Show is a totally pro-business event. It brings revenue into Culver City and desperately needed traffic to the businesses.
If anyone really looked at the budget numbers, he would be shocked and appalled that someone on the City Council a few years ago accused an event of using “Enron-type accounting” to compute expenses.
So goes the city.
It should be ashamed of itself for requesting payment for already-salaried employees, especially in such dire economic times.
Look what is going on: Every retail sale translates into into city revenues and every bit of visibility could bring those consumers back over and over again.
Fund the Car Show, and let Culver City shine.
Mr. Handal may be contacted at sgrest@aol.com
