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Committee recommends three‑year Batcove Music Festival contract to council after added protections; one dissent
Summary
A city committee voted to recommend a three‑year contract for the Batcove Music Festival after promoters agreed to a higher noise deposit, limits on transferability and reporting of attendance and finances to corporation counsel; one councilor dissented over ticket‑sale transparency and shuttle routing.
Portland’s special committee on events and parks voted Tuesday night to recommend a three‑year contract with the promoters of the Batcove Music Festival to the full City Council after staff negotiated several changes requested by the committee.
Ethan Hippel, director of parks, recreation and facilities, told the committee the promoters agreed to raise the noise deposit from $1,000 to $5,000 and accept a non‑transferability clause that requires city council approval before the agreement can be reassigned. "Now that's been bumped up to $5,000 which they agreed to," Hippel said, describing additional language that keeps key decisions in the council’s authority.
The agreement keeps an escalated per‑ticket fee that begins…
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