WINNIPEG -- Looking to strike a deal, Winnipeg Goldeyes owner Sam Katz and a city hall committee negotiated the baseball team's contentious lease in full public view Monday.

The former mayor and the City of Winnipeg are at a stalemate over a new agreement for the Shaw Park site.

The current 25-year deal ends in 2023. The Goldeyes pay a $1 annual lease.

A city report says the team receives more than $700,000 in annual tax and parking subsidies.

“I've said all along it shouldn't be a buck a year, cause it shouldn't be a buck a year. It should be more than that," says property committee chair Brian Mayes

The city wants all municipal tax and parking revenue, which would end the subsidies.

Katz told the property committee a lot of the report’s findings were based on a report a consultant did for the city in 2016.

Katz was clear about how he feels about that 2016 report.

“A biased report, an inaccurate report, full of misinformation,” says Katz.

Katz says the Goldeyes pay its share, including business taxes and related property taxes -- worth more than $5 million over the course of the deal. He also says some years, the team loses money.

"We pay more than any other baseball team in North America baseball, basically, right now at this level, and now we're going to be paying potentially more," says Katz.

Most councillors on the committee did show some sympathy for the Goldeyes.

"Here we have an opportunity to try and keep something that's provided a lot of vitality to downtown,” says Mayes.

In the end the committee directed city negotiators to continue talks, but with a proposal of its own.

Charleswood Councillor Kevin Klein tabled a motion for negotiators to take the proposal, endorsed by the committee, to the table:

  • $50,000 a year in rent
  • The city takes a 10 per cent cut of parking
  • No changes to the tax subsidies

"Those would be my proposals to start moving this along. The taxpayer is getting some benefit and getting some money back and the facility continues to be a part of Winnipeg," says Klein.

CTV News asked Katz if those terms are affordable.

"If you can guarantee me we'll have no rain outs and make the playoffs, we got a shot, without that it's going to be tough," says Katz.

The committee wants an update on negotiations in four months.