BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The National Football League's annual ownership meetings are scheduled to take place in Palm Beach, Florida from March 27 to March 30.

Sports consultant and new stadium project expert Marc Ganis plans to be at the meetings and expects the approval of a deal to build a new Buffalo Bills stadium to be among the top priorities.

"The Bills have been one of the more challenging teams to get a long-term stadium plan in place for and it's been one of the teams that it's been most needed for because the team does play for one of the smallest markets in the NFL they really have needed something like this for a very, very long time," Ganis said.

New York state, along with Erie County, the Bills and the NFL, have yet to announce terms for such a deal. But Ganis believes the league is content to let the state control the timeline so long as it happens before March 27.

"The broad parameters as seems to be in place now, I believe you'd find will be acceptable to the league and to the finance committee and the stadium committee and the ownership at large, and would be acceptable of course to the Bills ownership. If it changes in some dramatic way, all bets are off," he said.

The consultant said Gov. Kathy Hochul is likely trying to decide when the best time to announce the agreement in order to make sure it is included in the state budget due April 1.

"I don't think anybody wants to talk about what happens if it doesn't get approved," Ganis said. "I think we should all just be focused on getting it approved because the options if it doesn't aren't great."

There are reports New York taxpayers will contribute $1 billion of what's expected to be at least a $1.4 billion price tag.

"I believe that number is off by a bit," Ganis said. "That having been said, I would expect that the public sector contribution as a percentage of the construction cost of the building will be in the high range and the reason for that is, rule of thumb, the smaller the market, typically the higher the public sector contribution is to the project."

He said he doesn't expect it to be the largest percentage of public contribution to a stadium build in NFL history but it could be the largest fixed number because of the rising costs of the projects and general inflation.