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Encinitas Parks Commission hears plea to keep Exposure Skate in city as permit and service costs rise
Summary
Exposure Skate organizers and dozens of community speakers told the Parks and Recreation Commission that rising permit and service fees have forced parts of the event’s youth programming to move and urged the city to revisit a prior MOU or find cost-sharing to keep the internationally known women’s skate event in Encinitas.
Exposure Skate, an international women’s skateboarding event long based in Encinitas, asked the Parks and Recreation Commission on Nov. 18 to help the nonprofit remain in the city by revisiting past cost-sharing arrangements and exploring a new collaboration with staff and City Council.
Amelia, who identified herself as an Olympian and Exposure organizer, told the commission Exposure has been based in Encinitas for about a decade and runs the world’s largest women’s skateboarding event along with year-round youth programming and scholarships. She said the event drew roughly 200 competitors this year from 22 countries and that Exposure’s livestream and media reach helped put Encinitas in front of a global…
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