Sad news today that Stamford has decided to cancel its 4th of July Fireworks show. The annual fireworks show in Cummings Park has not been canceled in over 50 years. While the show only costs roughly $40,000, the total cost to the city is much higher when you account for police, fire, and sanitation overtime costs.
I am actually glad to see that the new mayor is able to make some of these unpopular decisions and slash spending versus just raising our taxes. He has also made other recent cuts in the budget by proposing a 10% decrease in the city’s workforce.
I’m glad someone is happy about these cuts. So, we’ll have nice low taxes in a city that no one wants to live in. Whoopee.
I will take lower taxes over Fireworks any day. Lower taxes drive investment, not fireworks and bloated gov’t services.
Personally, I am really disappointed. I know that there are some hard decisions here that need to be made in order to lower taxes, but it seems like we’re stripping away everthing that makes this city livable (schools, libraries, community-building). What’s going to be left?
I’m glad.
The fireworks shows have been lame in the last few years. It’s a nightmare trying to get around Shippan because of the traffic.
In time, when the city has a surplus, maybe we can have fireworks again.
@Dora: What’s going to be left?
Teacher pensions, police overtime pay and artificial soccer fields.
It’ too bad the fireworks are cancelled. With everything that is going on, the war, the oil spill, foreclosures, job loss, ecomony still awful maybe the new administration in Stamford could have been a bit more creative on how to celebrate our nations birthday of freedom. By not doing anything just adds to the list of doom and cloom. Public attractions are a way for communities to bind together. I do agree shippan suffers from the display because of the nonsense partying of the bar goers in the area. I guess we will have to celebrate our nations birthday in other communities this year!!