Winterlicious, the annual event that offers fixed-cost menus to budget-conscious diners as a way to tempt them out on a cold night, is the latest initiative to be lined up in the cost-cutting crosshairs at city hall.
Michael Thompson, head of the city’s economic development committee, said Tuesday it’s time the city consider “graduating” mature programs that can stand on their own, including Winterlicious, along with some established business improvement areas.
And of course we have to be reminded of conservative heartlessness..
A proposal to find “alternate sources of funding” to cover the city’s costs for a Christmas gift program for needy children was defeated, leaving the option of scrapping it entirely on the table. The program, started in the 1950s, uses city resources to match gifts collected by outside groups such as media organizations and firefighters with families in need and costs the city about $100,000 to support, Mr. Thompson said.
Anything to save a dime.
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