Los Angeles city officials Tuesday announced that private donors will pay the city's share, or about one million dollars, for a parade and rally celebrating the Los Angeles Lakers' NBA championship. Soon after the Los Angeles-based basketball team won the NBA title by defeating the Orlando Magic in their fifth game of the NBA finals Sunday, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa promised the city would foot half of the cost for the festive parade scheduled for Wednesday.
The parade, which is expected to take thousands of Lakers fans from Staples Center, the team's home stadium, through a 4-kilometer route to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, where a rally will be held.
The owner of the Lakers has agreed to pay another half of the total 2-million-dollar cost for the event.
After Villaraigosa's promise to use taxpayers' money to pay for the parade, local talk shows were flooded with callers saying that a recession was no time to use city money for such a parade.
Under public pressure, the mayor reportedly began to solicit private donations to defray the cost of the celebration, according to city officials.
Eric Garcetti, chair of the City Council, said Tuesday that officials believed they had enough private contributions to fully reimburse the city for its parade costs, which would be used to hire police and traffic control and rent the Coliseum.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League earlier urged the Lakers to pick up the entire cost for the parade, calling it "foolish" that the city pays one million tax dollars on a three-hour parade at a time when it has declared a fiscal emergency and faces a huge budget deficit.
初一下册英语单词:Unit5-6
小学生一年级英语作文:我的小狗(my dog)
小学生一年级英语作文:我的同学(My Classmates)
七年级下册英语单词表
小学生一年级英语作文:我的可爱老师(My Lovely Teacher)
小学一年级英语作文:梦里成为志愿者
初一下册英语单词:Unit1-2
小学一年级英语作文:繁忙的一天 A Busy Day
小学一年级英语作文:This morning
小学生一年级英语作文:我自己(My self)
小学生一年级英语作文:我的小卧室(My bedroom)
小学一年级英语作文:The best job
小学一年级英语作文:Father's hobby
初一上册英语单词:Unit5-6
小学一年级英语作文:Radio and television
小学一年级英语作文:A clever monkey
answer不只有“答案”那么简单
小学生一年级英语作文:我的老师(My teather)
小学一年级英语作文:A cat and a bird
盘点有关black的习语和表达方式
小学生一年级英语作文:我的猫咪(My cat)
初一下册英语单词:Unit3-4
小学一年级英语作文:What are stars like?
初一下册英语单词:Unit9-10
小学一年级英语作文:一个快乐的女孩(A happy girl )
小学生一年级英语作文:我的兔子(My rabbit)
小学一年级英语作文:I don't think so
小学生一年级英语作文:我是谁?(Who am I?)
初一上册英语单词:Unit1-2
小学一年级英语作文:The sea
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