Updated with new figures 17 March, 6:18pm
Country Rocks 2008 (Keith Urban)
Paid attendance: 11,853
City loans: $950,000.
City loan money paid back: $950,000
City in-kind contributions: $300,000
Paul McCartney
Paid attendance: 26,504
Loan from province to pay McCartney’s upfront fee: $3.5 million
NS Dept of Tourism for advertising: $300,000
NS Dept of Economic Development, forgiven loan to TCL: $300,000
Loans from city: As yet unknown.
City in-kind contributions: $150,000
KISS
Paid attendance: 21,420
City loans: $2.4 million
City loan money paid back: $2.4 million
City in-kind contributions: $150,000
Country Rocks 2010 (Alan Jackson)
Paid attendance: 10,009
City loans: $700,000
City loan money paid back: $540,450
City loan money not paid back: $159,550
City in-kind contributions: $100,000
Black Eyed Peas
Paid attendance: 8,362
City loans: $1.7 million
City loan money paid back: $1.5 million
City loan money not paid back: $200,000
City in-kind contributions: $100,000
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Wow!
Wow!
Wow!
We really had the wool pulled over our eyes. The fact that so many self-serving HRM officials and politicians lied about attendance is as big a scandal as the cash advances.
We paid for these concerts. We deserved to know the real attendance.
The layers of deception are startling.
There is no way we can trust the inflated numbers put out by TCL to support a new convention center. This should be obvious to everybody by now.
^^ idiot alert.
Man I love math. It is so straight forward compared to a world where the math is kept secret.
Just a little “goesintos” on the figures above shows that even if the city’s “loan” on the Paul McCartney concert is only around $200k the total bill for Nova Scotia works out to over $150 for every single person who attended the concert.
That’s a pretty big subsidy. Ad that to the money that absolutely left the province as a result of the concert – all the musician fees and the rest – and it is belligerent to talk about “spin-offs” or any of that other crap.
At a time when other communities are talk about austerity, getting down to work, small business, increasing productivity, lowering taxes and reducing the size of government our community is playing out the role of the first little pig gone mad.
We have to get down to work and start making instead of taking.
What constitutes “City in-kind contributions”?
ranafarmonk– police services, added buses, Common clean-up, like that.