The far end of Parkway Field, also known as Parkway Back, will no longer have temporary lights.

During a Sept. 23 meeting, the Village Board approved the installation of six permanent — 25-foot-high, 350-watt LED lights.

According to Village Administrator Eric Morrissey, construction is expected to start next spring or summer and will take approximately four weeks. Much of the work to install the lights will be completed by the village’s Department of Public Works, Superintendent Jeffrey A. Econom said.

Morrissey added that the final cost of the project is currently unknown, but “the majority of it will be paid for via a Recreation Fund.”

Under New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR), this installation will reduce a variety of environmental impacts produced by the portable lights that are currently rented by the village every year, Morrissey said.

“The lights will produce less noise, have less environmental impacts (since they’re not run on diesel), and direct light more effectively so that there’s less spill-over into adjacent properties,” he said.

In addition, they will “save man-hours” and remove the possibility of ongoing field damage, as the rental lights need to be moved onto and off the field by trucks every week, Econom said.

A memo addressed to Morrissey also mentioned that the lights can be especially helpful during night-time cleanup for the village’s music festival, which takes place every summer in the field.

While Bruce Figler, the executive director of the festival, said that the lights will not have much of an effect on the festival, since it only runs until a certain time, he did note that the lights will “allow vendors and stage crew to safely take down their equipment, [as well as] allow audience members to safely make their way off the field.”

Since there is a limited amount of field space within the village, this installation has garnered support from residents, as the lights will increase the amount of time the field can be used.

Jay LaCapria, a village resident and President of Dad’s Club of Pleasantville, said that, with the permanent lights, many of the youth sports programs that utilize Parkway Back will not be constrained to daylight and can start practice later in the evening, making it easier for everyone involved.

“I think it’s another example of the village’s continued dedication to youth sports in Pleasantville,” he said. “Lighting the backfield not only provides greater opportunity for youth sports, but it offers a greater opportunity to parent volunteers who struggle to get home from work in time to participate.”