City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0071R

• File #: 08-0071R
• Version: 0
• Name: Parking Authority of Baltimore City - Advertising Revenue
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/6/2008
• In control: Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee
• Final action: 2/23/2009
• Title: Parking Authority of Baltimore City - Advertising Revenue FOR the purpose of requesting the Executive Director of the Parking Authority of Baltimore City to address the City Council on the feasibility of selling advertising and marketing space in City-owned garages, as a means of generating new revenue.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Curran, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton, William H. Cole, IV, Edward Reisinger, James B. Kraft, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: Advertising, Parking Authority, Resolution, Revenue

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/23/2009	0	City Council	Amended
2/23/2009	0	City Council	Adopted
2/9/2009	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Recommended Favorably
2/9/2009	0	City Council	Held for 1 meeting
1/12/2009	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/6/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/6/2008	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Parking Authority of Baltimore City - Advertising Revenue

FOR the purpose of requesting the Executive Director of the Parking Authority of Baltimore City to address the City Council on the feasibility of selling advertising and marketing space in City-owned garages, as a means of generating new revenue.
Body
Recitals

As a way to find new revenues for cash-strapped local government, County Commissioners in Shelby County, Tennessee recently approved legislation allowing the sale of naming rights and ad space on county property. In introducing the measure, the bill’s sponsor stated that “everybody recognizes that the county has the need, in these tough economic times, for additional revenues, and a lot of counties around the country are generating dollars other than tax dollars, by selling advertising, sponsorships, and naming rights to corporate entities.”

According to Public Law Journal, an official publication of the State Bar of California public law section: “Nationwide, cities and other government entities are generating revenue from private advertising on public property. Among other places, for example, municipalities have leased advertising space on buses, bus shelters, parking meters, and trash cans. School districts have made advertising space available on baseball field fences and in student newsp...