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Palo Alto staff review middle‑school athletics program; commission asks for more data before considering outsourcing
Summary
The Parks and Recreation Commission received a staff briefing on the middle school athletics program, its $335 per‑sport fee, capacity constraints and two responses to a city RFI; public commenters backed a phased nonprofit takeover for some sports.
Senior community services manager Adam Howard told the Parks and Recreation Commission on July 22 that the city seeks options to align the middle school athletics (MSA) program with universal access goals and to test whether outsourcing operations to local groups is feasible.
The program — run by Palo Alto’s recreation division and operating at the three public middle schools (Green, Fletcher and JLS) — charges a $335 registration fee per sport and offers a fee‑reduction program of up to 50 percent. Howard said the program recorded 1,230 registrations this past school year and maintained a roughly 75 percent cost‑recovery target; staff listed staffing as about 80 percent of program expenses.
Howard reviewed program operations: a full‑time recreation coordinator oversees hiring, registration and…
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