City park wants cleanup workers living in tent cities to pay rent
Tags: rebuildingI think there's a bit more to this story than is given in City Park to squatters: Pay rent:
Officials say Katrina cleanup workers have to start paying for the space their tents and R-Vs are using in City Park, and those who don't pay by Friday will be treated as trespassers.
Pink fliers announcing the plan — 300 dollar a month for tents and 350 dollars for campers, with portable toilets, lavatories and trash containers provided — were handed out over the weekend.
Bob Becker, chief executive officer of City Park, says the facility will have to pay to repair at least four-point-three (m) million dollars of the 43 (m) million in damage done by Hurricane Katrina and it has no revenues.
Becker says the park has laid off more than nine-tenths of its staff.
With 23 workers remaining, Becker says it has too few workers to manage the rentals.
About one-thousand campsites are planned…
The park says it's planned 1000 campsites for workers, but it has to pay $4.3 million for repairs due to the hurricane, 9/10ths of their staff has been laid off, and there aren't enough workers to "manage the rentals". I guess they need the money to hire workers to collect the rent or something. And, I wonder how many of those living there are illegal aliens, and how many are working in unsafe conditions.
