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Week in Review: Sunset Strip Market, Gay Pride and City Budgets

The Sunset Strip Market is a rousing success in its debut night. The annual gay pride festival breaks attendance records. The city gets ready to discuss the proposed budget for 2012-2014.

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The long-anticipated to rousing crowds of happy shoppers. Well over a thousand people stopped by the market which combines a farmers’ market with live entertainment and cooking demonstrations. The market is every Thursday from 5-9 p.m. in the former Tower Records overflow parking lot, just east of Horn Avenue.

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With the City Council set to vote on the city’s budget for 2012-2014 at its Monday night meeting, many residents started examining the 272-page document. to hear their concerns.  Meanwhile several residents blogged for Patch about their concerns (see below).

The annual . Christopher Street West, which produces the event, said that 40,000 people attended the held in West Hollywood Park. CSW also estimated 400,000 were in attendance along the .

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Blogger Steve Martin was concerned when he saw a notation in the proposed new city budget for $212,000 for a feasibility study to (where the sheriff’s station currently sits). He questions the rationale of that move and suggests several alternatives, including leaving City Hall exactly where it is.

Blogger Shelia Lightfoot took a and finds there are many, many questions regarding it. She criticizes the City Council for allowing such an opaque document about an issue of vital importance to be issued and further criticizes the Council for scheduling a hearing on the budget amidst an already overcrowded agenda on Monday night.

Resident Victor Omelczenko also shined a flashlight on that same about the way the city is spending money and what it is spending it for.

Blogger Chloe Ross discussed the difference between using her dreamed of Maserati as an example. She suggests the City Hall should learn to control its spending as well, keeping things in check with the actual revenue it has coming in.

New Patch blogger Henry Scott talks about a when the city deemed that Skybar at the Mondrian Hotel cannot play music outside until a sound wall is erected.

Meanwhile new Patch blogger Cary Harrison shares his starting with the selection of Molly Ringwald as the grand marshal and continuing with how CSW spends the money it takes in.

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