CRYSTAL LAKE TAX PAYER ALERT--City to Consider Funding of Free Speach Foes
A Continental Army Color Guard in the 2007 Independence Day Parade in Crystal Lake. Will the values of the Founders be mocked again?
Will Crystal Lake tax payers once again fund discrimination at the Gala Parade or will there be Liberty at the city’s Independence Day celebration?
There will be a special workshop meeting with the Mayor and City Council of Crystal Lake "for the purpose of reviewing Hotel/Motel Tax Funding requests and discussing the allocation of Fiscal Year 2008-2009 Hotel/Motel Tax funding."
This has been the source of city funds to the Gala Festival in the past. Word is that the Gala Committee, sponsors of the Independence Day Parade that has discriminated against the Peace Group and others in the past, will be asking for another allocation For a discussion of the issues on this blog last summer: McHENRY COUNTY PEACE GROUP--Bringing Liberty to the Gala Parade
The meeting begins at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, January 8, at the City of Crystal Lake Municipal Complex, 100 W. Woodstock Street.
While everyone is encouraged to attend, I urge Crystal Lake residents, who will be able to speak, to attend and protest the allocation or at least demand that it be made contingent of the Gala Committee explicitly repudiating past practices and adopting a positive no-discrimination policy.
I am unable to attend because I work Tuesday nights. I wish I could be.