Westchester committee to draft simplified criteria for special-event fee assistance, considers parking revenue share

Westchester's Administration, Communication & Technology Committee on Sept. 9 agreed to simplify proposed criteria for providing borough assistance or discounted fees to externally organized special events and to prepare a draft policy for discussion at a forthcoming work session.

The item centers on whether and when the borough should provide services or financial support — such as police, public works or parking concessions — to events run by outside nonprofits or businesses, and how to set objective eligibility criteria.

"I did reach out to my colleagues ... I was under the assumption at this point that we would table this item indefinitely because we weren't really reaching much of an agreement where we would go," Committee Chair Brian Travis said, before urging the group to use an existing municipal example as a starting point. "There's a long list of criteria. This is just an example…