Buy me a traffic signal

Isn't the city supposed to pay for traffic signals? In Pacific Palisades, The Palisadian-Post reports that a private school attempted to raise $100,000 for a signal on Sunset -- but fell short:

The Westside Waldorf School's fundraiser on Sunday fell far short of raising the nearly $100,000 needed to fund the construction of a traffic signal on Sunset Boulevard at Los Liones Drive. The total amount raised from school-sponsored raffles, auctions and donations was "somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000 -- but probably closer to $10,000 -- said the K-8's Development Director Jeffrey Graham on Tuesday. That leaves the school roughly $85,000 short of what it must raise. "We're still waiting for the final estimate," Graham said. "We had a lower turnout than we had wished for, but we had a broad range of people participating. The real value [of the event] was raising awareness." L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl was one of approximately 50 people who attended the event.

Comments

[Palisadian Resident]

It's great and honorable that the great people of the Pacific Palisades offered to use a fund raiser to generate much needed funds for their childrens' safety. Yet, I must explode in laughter when I read that they raised between $5,000 and $10,000 in total! This total comes from a village where the average household earns $242,000 per year. I wonder if they even see the irony. Again, my hats go off to them for trying, and yet I am still blown away by the unbelievable stinginess of these folks.