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Mayor Wants To End Century’s Joint Fireworks Show With Flomaton, Go Bigger With Their Own Show
July 7, 2021
The Town of Century may have their own fireworks show for the Fourth of July 2022, ending a decade long agreement for a joint show with neighboring Flomaton.
Century, Flomaton, the Century Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Flomaton Chamber of Commerce joined forces in 2011 to split the cost of a $2,500 fireworks show at an even $625 each. Over the years, the chambers of commerce dropped out, and the towns evenly divided the cost of what became a $5,000 show.
Fireworks were canceled due to the pandemic in 2020, and in 2021 the show was canceled after it was not scheduled with the fireworks company in time.
Monday night, Mayor Ben Boutwell made a proposal to the town council for a Century-only show from now on. Boutwell said he already has the show tentatively scheduled with the vendor, and he wants the council to bump its annual fireworks budget to $10,000. The council will consider the request during upcoming budget workshops.
Pictured: Monday night, Century Mayor Ben Boutwell told the town council he wants to up Century’s commitment to a year Fourth of July fireworks show. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
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23 Responses to “Mayor Wants To End Century’s Joint Fireworks Show With Flomaton, Go Bigger With Their Own Show”
$10K for a fireworks show??? What about spending that to bring businesses back into the area? Not Dollar General! You drive down Hwy 29 & it looks so sad to see all of the empty buildings! What about saving & investing that money & any other that is not necessary & rebuild a police department? The county could care less about the crime & drugs in that area! Century is out of sight & out of mind to the majority of county departments! When relatives of mine who still live there have called numerous times to the sheriffs department about criminal activity in the area & are told BY OFFICERS themselves that unless something major happens that’s newsworthy they don’t care what happens up there….that’s just sad!!!!!
I would say that this has absolutely no chance of passing because the council seems to do the opposite of what the mayor wants, but this idea is stupid enough that they just might actually pass it.
I mean who needs bridges repaired, or something like a balanced budget? That’s just crazy talk.
So what’s his kickback? He already has “THE SHOW TENTATIVLY SCHEDULED WITH THE VENDOR.” So Century forget the failing infrastructure, pay more for bigger fireworks, (that’s very important) with money we don’t have and our wonderful neighbors from Flomaton pay NOTHING and see a bigger fireworks show in Century. Why not talk Flomaton into doing the bigger show and hook them up with the tentative vendor (split the kickback, just my humble opinion) and let them pay for the show. Then their wonderful Century neighbors can go all the way across the bridge and watch bigger fireworks costing Century NOTHING. After all Flomaton has four traffic lights and three of them have all four sides necessary for traffic flow. They must have more money to burn if they have so many traffic lights.
Buy some sparklers and invest the other $9995 in public works.
I am not being mean when I say this.
But has Century ever been normal on anything. Iall these years I read about the darndest things taking place there and I really cant wrap my head around it..day after say. If someone is still alive when it operates normally I would suggest going back to square one and fix the problem. It’s sad really.
Century does not have the money to pay their bills! There is too much violence, drugs and mayhem to even think about holding any events after dark in that place!!!
I vote no there is too many drugs, thefts, shootings ppl dying from beig beaten to death.Century needs to be cleaned up.
WOW. There are so many places nearby with fireworks. A more sensible solution would be to forego fireworks for a few years and focus on more important issues. Unbelievable.
How do you plan to manage a fireworks show when you can’t even manage a town?
I will bet 10K that TOC will never be able to pull this off.
We need BRIGGS BLVD repaved. We have been asking for 5 years! Roads then fireworks!
seems that the implosion is imminent.
No fireworks until balenced budget then shoot only one off.
The dumbest thing I have heard lately coming out of this place. Roads need fixing, at least one bridge needs repair, utilities need Suring-up, bills can’t be paid, and now we want to spend 10k for fireworks? Stupidity at its finest! Let’s celebrate America by doing the right things, not burning up money we don’t have.
Foot the bill themselves for a bigger show? The town of century can’t pay their other bills but can find money to pay for fireworks? Interesting
With all the issues w/ Century….. fireworks isn’t one of them
Century has bigger problems to worry about than fireworks. A poor town spending $10k on this is laughable.
10,000 dollars? NO! Century is BROKE! use the money to fix the water system. there are a lot of things that money could be used for besides burning it up on fireworks.
I am one that had high hopes for Boutwell bringing some sanity to TOC government. But nooooooo, he wants to cancel an agreement with Flomaton whereby TOC enjoys a half price fireworks show so that the TOC citizens can pay for the whole show themselves. He must have skipped school the day they taught 2+2
The town is broke and the mayor seriously wants to spend $10,000 on FIREWORKS?!
Why not ask for donations like a go fund me I would be willing to donate every year
With all of the other things that Town of Century has going on in the red, do they really think blowing up $10,000.00 on fireworks is a good idea? I’m sure there is a bridge that needs mending or a water pipe that needs fixing, that should come first to those that are footing the bills around there.
Get out and raise the money for it then.Like sand thru the hourglass gone is common sense anymore.
WHERES THE MONEY???
TILL YOU GET THE BUDGET TO EVEN OUT INTO THE BLACK,NO FIREWORKS!!!!!!!!!