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Council keeps Escalon Parks Foundation’s fireworks booth for 2025, agrees to revisit lottery in August
Summary
The council voted to keep one fireworks booth reserved for the Escalon Parks Foundation for the 2025 season and to revisit the city’s four-booth lottery system in August 2025; staff said changing the cap in code would require a code amendment.
The Escalon City Council voted to maintain the current fireworks-booth allocation for 2025 and to revisit the city’s lottery system in August 2025 after hearing from the Escalon Parks Foundation and local nonprofits.
Staff briefed the council on the existing process, which is codified in the municipal code and caps the number of fireworks booths within the city at four. The ordinance previously allocated one booth to the city recreation program and three via lottery to local nonprofits; over time the booth designated for recreation has been staffed by the Escalon Parks Foundation, which…
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