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Global Peace Festival, application to hold a festival in Bryant Park on May 25, 2008
WHEREAS, Community Board Five takes its role in the review of applications for Parks Special Events seriously and requests an opportunity to review the application before a permit is granted by the Parks Department Special Permit Office; and
WHEREAS, The applicant, Global Peace Festival, has applied for a permit to hold festival in Bryant Park on Sunday, May 25, 2008; and
WHEREAS, the applicant was invited, yet failed to attend Community Board Five’s Parks Committee meeting on April 28 to present their proposal for review; and
WHEREAS, Any questions that the committee might have regarding this event could not be addressed; therefore be it,
RESOLVED, that Community Board Five recommends denial of the application by Global Peace Festival to hold a festival in Bryant Park.
The above resolution passed by a vote of 32 in favor; 0 opposed; 1 abstaining.