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Board asks staff to tighten banner program language, city attorney flags tax wording
Summary
The Park Board directed staff to remove a tax‑exempt reference and specify banner sizes and installation procedures; members discussed a special meeting to finalize the program.
Park staff were instructed to revise the proposed banner program after the city attorney identified problematic wording and requested clearer limits on size and duration.
The attorney asked staff to remove a claim that the banners were “tax‑exempt,” saying the city cannot make legal tax determinations and that the phrase should be removed. Board members asked that banner dimensions be specified and that the typical seasonal duration (for example, softball season or pickleball season) be included in the program language. Staff said the attorney was generally comfortable with a short, interim change and recommended that a formal policy and desktop procedures be developed next year.
Board members discussed scheduling a special meeting (tentatively March 11 in the transcript) to finalize the banner and other agreements; staff said the attorney’s edits could be completed by the end of the week. Several board members preferred the edits be finalized before public solicitation of banner applications.
