Melissa G.

I think that if anything should be put on a ballot, it is the elected officials of Laconia. If they can't give a straight out account of expenditures vs. profit, something is wrong with the leadership - not the event itself... if it isn't profitable to the community, it's the elected official's job to do something about it, right? If they aren't doing anything about it it's either, A) really profitable or B) horrible leadership. Something tells me that people wouldn't have as big of a problem if there was a "world (insert family hobby here) week" with the same problems (traffic, parking, increased police presence, vendors, etc).