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Santa Clara staff and organizers discuss new fee categories, turf pricing and field prioritization
Summary
Parks staff presented fee benchmarking and prompted organizers to endorse a priority framework that would give Santa Clara youth-based groups preferential field access and create separate rates for adult nonprofits, residents and commercial users.
Santa Clara Parks and Recreation staff and community sports organizers discussed proposed changes to field-use categories and fees, including higher charges for turf fields, clearer priority rules for Santa Clara-based youth organizations and separate rates for adult nonprofit and commercial users.
Staff presented benchmarking data from neighboring jurisdictions and materials from the Santa Clara Unified School District, noting that the city's cost-recovery policy had previously lumped all nonprofits into a single category. The discussion focused on restoring more granular categories: first priority for city programs and Santa Clara-based youth organizations with more than 50% Santa Clara participants (residents or students who attend Santa Clara…
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