In 2013, after a poor performance by the contracted firework display vendor, the Angle Lake Shore Club Board of Directors decided to terminate the relationship with the existing vendor and faced a difficult decision regarding which route should be taken as a result.
The choices were:
A) Turn over to the City the responsibility for producing future firework displays from the shoreline.B) Contract with a new vendor capable of providing a platform for performing a display in the center of the lake at a significantly increased cost.C) Build our own platforms, enabling a greater number of capable firework vendors to participate in submitting bids, resulting in substantial savings in production costs.
A plan was developed to poll the community for a determination of direction. The resulting tally favored option C to build our own barges.
The board assumed accountability for securing five primary investors; negotiating ownership and usage terms and condition agreements; organizing a membership capital campaign to finance a club matching contribution; establishing plans and materials; overseeing the assembly of volunteers to complete the build of seven individual barges with a total market value of over $65,000! (Note: 2014 dollars)
It is amazing what this community has accomplished. It is truly a rare instance to witness a neighborhood of our size venture into a project of significant complexity requiring full and complete collaboration, let alone successfully deliver what was set out to do. It is inspiring what this supportive community and the many talented volunteers had contributed in delivering a complete set of commercial quality barges as planned to become the launch point for the Angle Lake Fireworks show for generations to come!
Relive the entire saga through the previous blog posts:
Congratulations and a note of appreciation goes to the entire Angle Lake Community in achieving this success!
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