{"id":389515,"date":"2026-09-03T19:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:08:11","slug":"altamonte-springs-to-vote-on-ending-red-hot-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389515\/","title":{"rendered":"Altamonte Springs to vote on ending Red Hot & Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Altamonte Springs to vote on ending Red Hot & Boom<\/p>\n

\"Madilyn\"Bob<\/a>ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

Altamonte Springs officials are weighing whether to end the Red Hot & Boom fireworks show due to escalating costs at City Hall Thursday night. <\/p>\n

The annual Fourth of July celebration, which attracts 200,000 people to the area near the mall, costs nearly $1 million, according to city officials. <\/p>\n

Expenses have risen because of security, tariffs, inflation and insurance. <\/p>\n

City Manager Frank Martz said the event, which began 29 years ago to promote and develop Uptown Altamonte, has achieved its goal. <\/p>\n

Officials now believe it is time to discontinue the event. <\/p>\n

The city commission is voting on next year\u2019s budget, which does not allocate any funding for Red Hot & Boom. <\/p>\n

The meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. at Altamonte City Hall, will include a public hearing where residents can voice their opinions on the matter. <\/p>\n

This vote is not final, as a second vote will be required later to officially approve the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Altamonte Springs to vote on ending Red Hot & Boom ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 Altamonte Springs officials are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4131,155845,43256,9935,155844,15005,1555,6028,9503,139,141,140,7449,134411,1184,11573,13983,164],"class_list":["post-389515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-altamonte-springs","tag-annual-fourth","tag-boom","tag-budget","tag-city-manager-frank-martz","tag-city-official","tag-event","tag-inflation","tag-insurance","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-public-hearing","tag-red-hot","tag-security","tag-tariff","tag-vote","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}