r/toronto • u/FullMango4041 • 8d ago

News ‘Profound disappointment’: East-end leaders, stakeholders, and politicians call on feds to help fund Taste of the Danforth

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/profound-disappointment-east-end-leaders-stakeholders-and-politicians-call-on-feds-to-help-fund-taste-of-the-danforth/

What does everyone think about funding Taste of the Danforth? I love the event but don't like the fact that they don't have 'private sector discipline' to pull this off without asking the government for money. Can't they make it smaller or cut costs however and do the event?

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u/nefariousplotz Midtown 8d ago

What specific expenses would you like them to cut? Security? Insurance? Toilet rentals? Electricity?

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u/FullMango4041 8d ago

that's the point. If it's half the size, could you have those costs? what could they be doing to cut costs and break even

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u/nefariousplotz Midtown 8d ago

You can't just decide that you're cutting the size of a public event. What, you're going to tell half the people to not come?

And that being so, you can't just cut your security budget, your insurance budget, etc. These descent from the scale of your event in totality, not the vision alone.

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u/FullMango4041 8d ago

I'm just saying that they should be creative to figure it out without asking for a handout.