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Council approves home-rule request enabling advertising on municipal sports-field fences
Summary
The council adopted a resolution authorizing an amendment to the General Municipal Law to permit the city to lease advertising on sports-field fences, with revenue required to pass to a nonprofit and be spent in the park where the signs are located, the council said; members noted similar programs exist elsewhere in the state.
The Common Council on May 27 adopted a resolution authorizing a home-rule request to amend the General Municipal Law to permit the City of White Plains to lease advertising on sports-field fences in city parks.
A council speaker explained that state approval is required because the fields are in municipal parks, and that existing law requires any revenue from such advertising be given to a nonprofit which must spend the money in the park where the signs are located. The council said the change mirrors programs in other municipalities and thanked state legislators for their assistance in crafting enabling language.
The resolution was moved, seconded and adopted by the council; no specific sites, lease terms or nonprofit partners were approved at the meeting. The action forwards the city's request to state officials to permit advertising leases on park fences once state law is amended.
