With less than seven weeks to go before St. Patrick’s Day festivities, Savannah City Council members Wednesday will consider changes to the annual celebration.
The proposals include changes which would end outdoor beer and food sales and ending the gating system on River Street.
If you want to drunkenly express your thoughts, the Savannah City Council will meet Wednesday, not Thursday, so council members can attend Savannah-Chatham Day in Atlanta to discuss legislative priorities. Wednesday’s workshop begins at 10:30 a.m. The regular meeting follows at 2 p.m. Meetings are held on the second floor of City Hall, 2 E. Bay St.
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Why don’t we just drunkenly express them at the Capitol on Thursday. This session’s been pretty boring thus far.
Rogue,
Glad to see you took time out from your favorite hobby of kicking homeless people around to have a drink.
http://www.peachpundit.com/2009/01/26/state-rep-rich-golick-an-enemy-of-free-markets-and-a-friend-of-whiners-and-complainers/
As a conservative, I’m really pissed when the politicians have to get involved into every trend. Heck, for a while there, Buckhead was as good as Bourbon Street in New Orleans. And for at least one St. Patricks Day Parade we had the Budweiser Clydesdales. But, of course the rules and regs. took over. And, well IMHO I think the whole “paid parking” thing could be “mafioso” so to speak. And perhaps the Bars themselves have joined the “control” camp, thinking they would be better off if people bought beer in their establishments. Nope. Everybody wants to kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Actually, it was Ray Lewis that killed the goose that laid the golden egg.
Of course Buckhead became “cruise central”. And what effect did “paid parking” have on this? As an “average Joe” I’m not about to spend an arm and a leg to park my truck on a section of asphalt in order to pay a cover so I can have the privilege of drinking a beer next to some A-hole or some money hungry harlot in a black dress.
this is so rediculous.
I agree, the college kid in me says we should all show up trashed to their meeting, and take them all out for a drink to loosen them up [do they not have anything better to do than trying to spoil our St. Patty's Day?]
This was introduced because certain people that own establishments downtown don’t want to run tents anymore on Riverstreet…they’ve been losing money the past couple of years and they want people to buy beer inside bars and restaurants instead. It’s about $$$ and nothing else. Trust me.
Yeah
I hate it when bars lose money on St. Patrick’s day. It’s a real bummer.
I’m still wondering how Vic thinks he is making any coherent points by referencing my recent post about Rich Golick in each subsequent blog I write! Someone needs to gake the bottle away from ‘em!
The CC should be thinking about what overall impact this will have for the city rather than just what impact it will have on some of the bars. I would guess that if they do away with the tents & gated section of River St they will end up losing money overall. Maybe I’m wrong. But I bet they aren’t looking at it from that perspective…
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