Under Beale's ordinance, aldermen would be charged $1,000 from their ward-level budgets to cover the cost to the city of making and installing two of the honorary signs, plus the cost of later taking them down. The signs would only be allowed for people who are deceased, and each would only go up for five years unless the local alderman passed another ordinance to renew them. Signs honoring living people would not be renewed, according to the Law Department.