I think we need some criteria. I think before we keep doing this in an ad hoc manner, in which we kind of walk into the cloakroom and hear, wow, elephants are coming, the circus is coming, we are going to have a car lot, do this or that, or have a rock show, I would hope there would be some general criteria, rather than in an ad hoc way, as to what we can and cannot use the Capitol Grounds for. Otherwise maybe we should rent it out, maybe privatization; they should pay us and we get the money back and we use it for something to maintain the Capitol. I do not know. I must say it is not the car show per se, but it is just the idea that there is more of ad hoc casual way that they are coming one on one, and there does not seem to be any criteria or any overall agenda that they fit through.
Patricia Schroeder: “I think we need some criteria. I think before we keep doing this in an ad hoc manner, in which we kind of walk into the…”
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Discussing the need for criteria regarding the use of Capitol Grounds for events.
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