City Council floats plan to make buskers pay for permits
“Good grief,’’ one busker advocate responds.
Members of the Boston City Council discussed a plan that would require buskers to buy a $40 annual public performance permit, The Boston Globe reports.
Councilors were moved to require busker registration after hearing complaints from residents and from performers, who told Councilor Salvatore LaMattina they have sometimes felt “threatened and harassed’’ by other performers.
Other City Council members stressed caution before moving forward with the plan. Stephen Bairs, the executive director of the Streets Arts & Buskers Advocates, was more forceful in his criticism of the plan.
“It’s so badly written,’’ he told the Globe. “They are proud of this? It’s, like, good grief.’’
The plan will be discussed further at a formal hearing in the future, the Globe reports.
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