Ed Staley: With right enticement, maybe X-Fest would come back
Re “Organizer pulls plug, event lands in Stockton” (Front page, June 2): I noticed the sad story in The Bee about losing the revenue (and taxes) from the X-Fest moving to Stockton. But I have an idea I borrowed from someone else who probably won’t submit it to the newspaper. So I felt it my duty to let all the older, responsible people who read The Bee, like me, see it.
If the city would pay $75,000 for an evening meal and hotel overnight, the band members coming to X-Fest in August on their way to Stockton the night before could stay here in hopes of Modesto getting them back next year. If it’s good for the Amgen bicycle racers, why not them? $1.7 million is a lot of revenue for Modesto to lose.
Ed Staley, Modesto
This story was originally published June 6, 2016 at 7:00 PM with the headline "Ed Staley: With right enticement, maybe X-Fest would come back."