Disney also spent more than $100 million to refurbish the city-owned stadium in Anaheim, where the team plays.
The city-owned stadium became run-down.
The city-owned stadium is the home stadium of two top-flight association football clubs, Club Brugge and Cercle Brugge.
Football, baseball and soccer games are played at Civic Field, a city-owned stadium about 1.5 miles from the school.
The deadline for that choice is drawing near, as the team's lease of the city-owned stadium expires in 2002.
The Ottawa City Council discussed different possibilities regarding the city-owned stadium and accepted the offer given by Can-Am League president Miles Wolff.
One question, backed by the City Council, would ask voters whether public money should be spent to help the Yankees move when their lease at the city-owned stadium expires in 2002.
The Yankees will pay rent on the city-owned stadium, as well as payments in lieu of taxes, Ms. Patterson said.
The team is the major tenant in the city-owned stadium under a 30-year lease signed in 1972.
The invocation from the press box at Montgomery's Cramton Bowl marked the second straight week the city-owned stadium was the site of a challenge to the court decision.