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West Hollywood staff explain RFPs, budgets and security plans for major city events
Summary
Event Services staff told Civic Leadership Academy participants that the city uses multiyear RFPs to hire full‑service production firms for large events, that security arrangements vary by event and that the 2025 WeHo Pride event budget exceeded $5 million.
City staff on the Civic Leadership Academy stage laid out how West Hollywood plans and pays for major events, explaining the procurement process, security arrangements and budgetary oversight.
Megan Reith, event services supervisor, told participants the city’s municipal code defines a major event as “a temporary activity that has a full street closure and or generates impacts in multiple areas of traffic, noise, or safety,” and said those events require coordination across many city divisions. Reith said that for city‑produced events the department typically seeks a single full‑service production firm under a multiyear contract to handle design, marketing, staging and artist booking.
Why it matters: West Hollywood hosts some of the region’s largest gatherings —…
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