Parks User Fees Methodology

1. User Fee Methodology
Parks & Recreation Department

2. Mission Statement
“To provide a diversity of facilities and leisure
services which are geographically and
demographically accessible to our citizens.”

3. Benefit & Cost Continuum
Services perceived to
provide community wide
benefits and should be fully
subsidized from taxes.
All benefits accrued by the
user should be set to cover
costs.
Greenways & Trails
Splash Pads
Playground
Parks
Enterprise Operations
Cemetery
Licenses
Permits
COMMUNITY WIDE USER ONLY
0% 100%
BENEFIT CONTINUUM
COST RECOVERY CONTINUUM

4. Current Cost Recovery Policy
COST DISTRIBUTION COMPRISED OF DIRECT & INDIRECT COST
MINIMAL FEE
SUPPORT
PARTIAL FEE
SUPPORT II
PARTICIAL FEE
SUPPORT I
FULL FEE
SUPPORT
0% to 20% 20% to 50% 50% to 80% 80% to 100%
Parks & Playgrounds Youth Sports & Programs Adult Sports Cemetery
Ref. 20-21 Budget Book, Appendix F, 3.4, p. 302

5. Predicted Recreation Fund FY’21
REVENUE PREDICTIONS (APRIL 2020) LOW DUE TO EARLY COVID-19 PROJECTIONS/EXPENSES CALCULATED AT 100% PARTICIPATION
SUPPORT LEVEL REVENUE
DIRECT &
INDIRECT COST
% OF SUPPORT
FULL FEE SUPPORT (80%-100%)
PARTIAL FEE SUPPORT I (50%-80%)
Adult Tennis 15,000 32,179 53.4%
Adult Volleyball 10,000 33,436 70.1%
Adult Kickball 10,000 39,069 74.4%
Adult Softball 30,000 129,743 76.9%
Water Fitness 1,500 7,030 78.7%
PARTIAL FEE SUPPORT II (20%-50%)
Swim Team 12,000 52,664 77.2%
Youth Football 25,000 76,521 67.3%
Youth Basketball 10,000 93,256 89.3%
Camps & Clinics 2,000 39,840 95%
Youth Tennis 1,000 47,349 97.9%
No-Fee Programs (ex. CSLL, CSSC) 280,421 100%
MINIMAL FEE SUPPORT (0-20%)
Community Education 45,000 46,684 3.6%
Swim Lessons 48,000 130,375 63.2%
RE Meyer Center 5,000 137,767 96.4%
Challenger Sports 14,999 100%
Splash Pads 5,045 100%
SW Center-Community 111,705 100%
Adamson Lagoon 185,000 385,983 52.1%
Lick Creek Nature Center 30,000 160,836 81.3%
SW Center-Senior 5,300 35,884 85.2%
Lincoln Center 75,000 558,091 86.6%
SW Pool 12,000 170,874 93%

6. Considerations
• Review the positioning of services on the Cost
Continuum Model
• Recommend a five-year plan to achieve stated goal,
with yearly review and adjustments as needed
• Develop a common unit of analysis (i.e. – participants
and/or participation) to reflect the consistent
“participant subsidy” amounts
• Address financial participation barriers via proactive
scholarship programming

7. 2021 Fee Recommendations
• Approved by Parks & Recreation Advisory Board in
November 2020
• Fee resolution to Council on March 11, 2021
• Criteria for suggested increases:
– Address rising costs of supplies and staff
– Movement toward meeting recovery policy,
priority in adult sports and rentals
– Market sensitivity