File #: Int 0643-2024    Version: * Name: A plan to identify and facilitate the use of indoor facilities for basketball games.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 3/7/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law in relation to a plan to identify and facilitate the use of indoor facilities for basketball games
Sponsors: Kevin C. Riley, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Althea V. Stevens, Julie Won, Oswald Feliz, Yusef Salaam, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Amanda Farías, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Lincoln Restler, Nantasha M. Williams
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR), in coordination with the Department of Education (DOE), to create a plan that would identify and facilitate the use of indoor basketball courts and gyms for organized basketball leagues to use when weather would not permit use of outdoor basketball courts. The plan would need to address how DPR will facilitate the use of indoor basketball courts and gyms that are maintained or operated by the city, how DPR will coordinate with other relevant agencies to facilitate the use of indoor basketball courts and gyms, and ways to identify private indoor basketball courts and gyms that are available for use by basketball leagues.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 643, 2. Int. No. 643, 3. March 7, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-7-24

Int. No. 643

 

By Council Members Riley, Gutiérrez, Stevens, Won, Feliz, Salaam, Brewer, Hanif, Farías, De La Rosa, Restler and Williams

 

A Local Law in relation to a plan to identify and facilitate the use of indoor facilities for basketball games

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. a. Definitions. As used in this local law, the term “basketball league” means an organized league that has a valid permit approved by the department of parks and recreation to reserve an outdoor basketball court in advance for a specified time and date.

b. Plan. No later than 120 days after the effective date of this local law, the department of parks and recreation, in coordination with the department of education, shall prepare and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on its website, a plan to identify and facilitate the use of indoor basketball courts and gyms which may be used by basketball leagues on days when the weather does not permit use of outdoor basketball courts. The department of parks and recreation shall implement the plan no later than 60 days after the plan has been submitted. The plan shall address, but need not be limited to:

1. How the department of parks and recreation and the department of education will facilitate the use of indoor basketball courts and gyms that are maintained or operated by the city;

2. How the department of parks and recreation will coordinate with other relevant agencies to facilitate the use of indoor basketball courts and gyms; and

3. Ways to identify private indoor basketball courts and gyms that are available for use by basketball leagues.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

Session 13

LS #14068

01/10/2024

 

Session 12

JEF

LS #14068

10/2/23 1:00pm