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Leesburg keeps legacy event fee waivers; sets 50% or $5,000 cap for new waiver requests
Summary
Councilors decided to retain the existing list of legacy fee‑waiver events, require organizers to shoulder most costs for other events, set a cap on new fee waivers at 50% or $5,000 (whichever is less), ask for 90‑day advance notice, and direct staff to draft revised policy language for council approval.
The Leesburg Town Council voted by consensus to retain its list of legacy fee‑waiver events and to adopt a new framework for future requests that caps one‑time fee waivers for new events at 50 percent of eligible fees or $5,000, whichever is less.
Town staff reviewed the history of the town’s fee‑waiver program, which traces to a 1996 resolution and was updated in 2021. Staff said the town maintains a set of annual “legacy” fee‑waiver events — including local high‑school graduation parties held at town facilities, the Halloween parade, the Juneteenth freedom march and other annual downtown events — and that the town’s one‑time fee waivers have ranged from about $400 to…
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