[Announce-DAN] Cop overtime alone exceeded LA's entire budget for Democratic Convention

["Pavlos Stavropoulos" <pavlos@aigis.com>]

   Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:41:34 -0800
   From: danila <part2001@usa.net> (by way of Michael Novick <part2001@usa.net>)
Subject: Cop overtime alone exceeded LA's entire budget for Democratic Convention

The reporter didn't interview a citizen on whether the city's expense on
police repression was a 'good' investment...
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Excerpted from the Friday, November 17, 2000 Daily News, front page:

"Dems' cost to LA soars to $35 million"
by Rick Orlov

The Democratic National Convention cost Los Angeles taxpayers $35.8
million, more than triple the original estimate and $14.1 million more
than was budgeted, officials said Thursday.

In a report to Mayor Richard Riordan and the City Council, City
Administrator Bill Fujioka recommended that the shortfall be made up
from unappropriated and reserve funds and absorbed in department
budgets.

He said the city would take in $2 million in bed tax revenue from the
$147 million in business the DNC brought to the city.
...
Fujioka said the biggest expense was $17.6 million for services above
normal levels--primarily in overtime pay, services and equipment that
had not been anticipated. The largest portion of this--$11.6
million--was for police overtime costs.
...
Originally, the city had been committed to about $11 million in direct
and indirect costs for the convention. That later was increased by $4
million when L.A. Convention 2000, known during the DNC as the Host
Committee, fell short in its fundraising efforts.

Fujioka said the breakdown for all costs includes $12.2 million for
in-kind services, $2 million for transportation of delegates and $4
million spent by the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau.

A Riordan spokesman said the mayor considers the city's expense an
investment.

"Not only did the convention generate $147 million in spending; it paid
off tremendously in other areas," said spokesman Ben Austin, who served
as spokesman for the Host Committee before and during the convention.

"The convention was a success because it paid off financially for the
city and will continue to do so for years to come. And it allowed the
city to be in the national spotlight to shine. This was a tremendous
success, no matter how you cut it."


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