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City staff seek council input on draft facility rental policy; nonprofits press for affordability and booking windows
Summary
City staff presented a draft facility-rental policy proposing resident, nonprofit and nonresident rates, standardized hard costs, and booking rules; council members and nonprofit speakers pushed for clearer booking windows, multi-venue discounts and exceptions for fundraisers.
City staff presented a draft facility-rental policy to the Maricopa City Council and solicited feedback on fee structure, booking windows and nonprofit discounts.
"This is the big ticket item, the fee structure that we've built into this draft," said Shane Stone, identified in the packet and at the meeting as a police executive administrator who was serving in an assistant-to-the-city-manager role for the presentation. Stone described a proposed structure using a base rate, a nonresident rate of 125 percent of base, a resident discount of 25 percent and a nonprofit discount of 35 percent, plus uniform hard-cost charges and deposits capped at 120 percent of rental fees.
Stone said the draft limits resident discounts to once per week (athletic teams and leagues are exempt), requires resident proof of address for the resident rate, and…
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