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Liberty Lake council to review youth baseball field fees after league and staff report large year-to-year gap
Summary
City council agreed to a March 4 workshop on field fees and reserved study of prior-year billing after the Liberty Lake–Spokane Valley youth league and staff reported large differences between billed, paid and requested field‑use amounts.
The Liberty Lake City Council voted to schedule a workshop for its March 4 meeting to review field‑reservation fees after weeks of meetings between league volunteers and parks staff, and approved a separate administrative review of past invoicing practices.
The issue arose after the Liberty Lake–Spokane Valley Little League submitted a request for extensive field reservations and associated field‑prep services. Council members and staff described a large discrepancy between what the league was billed in 2024 and what the city’s adopted fee schedule would have produced.
City Administrator Mark McEvoy told council the league’s 2024 posted request translated to an extended price of about $45,780 under the fee schedule, but the league’s actual invoice paid last year was $3,295. McEvoy said staff previously applied unauthorized discounts and that the city’s adopted…
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