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Iowa City Holiday Lighting Costs Across Downtown
The city spends about 1,600 dollars in wages for six hours to cut transport and decorate the tree and 1,900 dollars to keep holiday streetlights lit. The downtown lights are funded by the Self-Supported Municipal Improvement District and the crane service donates the tree. In Iowa City eight staff labor roughly 20 hours to install 52 snowflakes and 60 ornaments downtown, with LED lighting and minimal estimated costs. The display aims to bring families downtown and is budgeted annually with potential upgrades after 2016 while Marion’s Christmas in the Park runs with a few hundred dollars in lighting costs.
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