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Council probes recreation budget after large credit-card fee reclassification; discusses options to cover costs
Summary
Councilors examined the recreation (RAC) budget line for credit-card processing, learned a large portion of the increase reflected a reclassification from software to processing, and debated whether to pass fees through to participants, add convenience charges, or levy small registration fees to cover costs.
Councilors spent extensive time reviewing the Recreation Department budget and pressed staff about a large credit-card processing line, program pricing and how to keep recreation operations at least break-even.
Staff reported the budget shows a consolidated credit-card/online fee figure of roughly $108,000. They explained accounting changes moved about $45,000 of costs previously budgeted under software into the credit-card line, leaving a net processing increase of about $8,000 year over year after reclassification.
Councilors and staff discussed several ways to address the net…
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