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Dear Tribe</div>
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To say I'm upset, is an understatement.</div>
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NC dept of parks arranged that all vendors who use the parks for any reason have to pay 12% to the park. It means that along with the $400 permit I paid to host my husband's 80th birthday June 5, any food or entertainment I use will cost me 12% over above the
real fee back to the park. </div>
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How do I make this really public, do we have Newsday and local media contacts? It's economic rape.</div>
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I was not advised of this when securing the permit yesterday, which is non refundable. I was told by the food vendor that the entertainment I secured two months ago before there was a food vendor arranged must go through them in order to pay 12% back to the
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The park only told me at the time, when I inquired about the rules to bring in entertainment, that my only obligation regarding food would be to go through a yet unknown caterer for the food. No one ever mentioned that both would require 12% fee back to the
park that comes out of my pocket over and above the permit. </div>
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It feels like economic rape. Plain and simple.</div>
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Not ok.<br>
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