I want to say this. I'm not going to. So I got all the parties together. I said, we're not going to have two parades. First of all, We don't have enough HPD officers. After the New Orleans tragedy, we realized, you know, it costs about 300 grand to protect a parade. And they were having two parades at the same downtown. Yeah. So I made it a very practical efficiency, public safety argument, and I said, okay, keep your sponsors. (12:27–12:37)
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Asserts a shortage of HPD officers and the cost of parade security.
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