No Trail of Lights This Year in Austin

 The City of Austin has put on a show for the towns people every year around Christmas since 1965 and now they want to stop doing it because of vanishing funds. The source of the budget is an ongoing problem lately, with the economy, and now there might not be a Zilker Park Trail of Lights. There will be a tax increase soon on utility bills for people in Austin and then they are going to take away the Trail of Lights because they cannot afford it this year. I believe this blogger is trying to let everyone know where the money that is set aside for the trail of lights is being spent, and maybe have a few charities come through so that everyone in Austin will be able to enjoy the trail of lights this year. I can see the good that the City is trying to do with cutting back the budget and not putting up the trail of lights, they want to improve on other problems that Austin parks are having, but the Trail of Lights is an icon of Austin. It’s one of the only trails like it around and I believe everyone enjoys going out to see it. The conclusion is that we will have a couple bucks to help get more jobs to people in need, we will be able to get more police men out in the area and get more firemen, but we also need to have our traditions around. The City of Austin should try to find more people to help support the Trail of lights before they just take away the budget and deny Austin the joys of the season.