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Downtown West Chester asks borough to credit parking revenue for Christkindlmarket; council debates whether it amounts to 'double dipping'
Summary
Councilors split over a Downtown West Chester (BID) request to apply shared parking revenue as a credit for the Christkindlmarket event; BID director provided event costs and parking revenue figures and said the arrangement makes the event affordable and benefits retailers; some councilors raised budgeting and fairness concerns.
A heated exchange over event funding took center stage in the parking committee portion of the Dec. 16 council meeting when Downtown West Chester (the borough’s business improvement district) asked the borough to credit parking-garage revenue to the BID for Christkindlmarket and similar special events in the central business district.
Council members debated language in the motion that originally would have applied to “all future events” in the Central Business District; several councilors urged narrowing the scope to avoid an open-ended commitment. Council Member (24) objected that the arrangement could…
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