Bikes, Babes, and $20,000 Less Bling for Parks
Posted by BKisida | Music - Movies - Entertainment, Politics, Uncategorized | July 13, 2010
Earlier we made the case (here) that changing Fayetteville’s HMR tax so it could be used for development and maintenance of parks, instead of just development of new parks, was a bad idea. We argued that we’d rather see the money for park maintenance come from just about anywhere else before the park development fund was robbed.
Well, in what we are sure will eventually become a long list of expenses we would have preferred the city cut back on in order to maintain our parks, we begin with Bikes, Babes, and Bling. $20,000 from the HMR tax was spent for the great festival that wasn’t. Here’s a video of the festivities:
According to the Fayetteville Flyer, KHBS/KHOG is reporting that the “city” is estimating that the economic impact of the festival was $430,000. They’re also asking people what their impression of the festival was. The comments are pretty hilarious. Read more here.
Updated for clarity.
[...] was your impression of Bikes, Babes & Bling in its first year? Arkansas Traveler, KHBS/KHOG, Mid-Riffs, NWAOnline, Ozarks [...]
Hi guys. The report of the city’s estimate was actually from KHBS/KHOG, not us. I guess ours was a report of a report. The skeptic tone was likely a result of us feeling that using words as vague as “the city” when naming a source for a number as specific as “$430,000″ was a little odd.
Thanks for the clarification Todd. I edited the post to reflect that. It will be interesting to see what the more “official” numbers come up with.