City axes block party fees
There will be one less obstacle to holding a block party this summer, thanks to the city’s decision to axe the $25 fee for block party street barricades.
City Manager Jim Puffalt said removing the fee is part of the city’s community safety strategy to encourage residents to get to know their neighbours and one way they could do that is by throwing a block party.
“We’re encouraging people to meet their neighbours and there’s a cost, a penalty, to having one so we wanted to take that away and show our full support for our program, people meeting people and just knowing who lives next door,” he said.
Puffalt said city staff want to support people getting to know each other in the community and taking away one more obstacle in the form of a fee might help that.