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Rec & Park proposes higher nonresident fees at Harding Park and PGA management to cut subsidy
Summary
Rec & Park proposed raising nonresident green fees at Harding Park and adding a cart fee for some patrons, and said the PGA Tour will manage clubhouse and tee-sheet operations without a management fee; analysts expect the changes and PGA partnership to reduce but not eliminate the golf fund subsidy.
San Francisco — The Recreation and Park Department asked supervisors to approve an ordinance to raise nonresident green fees at Harding Park and to separate cart rental charges for some categories of players, while noting some fee increases are already set under park code for residents.
Katie Petruccione told the subcommittee the proposed changes would raise nonresident weekday and weekend rates roughly 10 percent (weekday from $135 to $150; weekend from $155 to $170) and that the FY 2010–11 budget assumes approximately $87,000 more in revenue from nonresident fee changes and about $60,000 from cart rentals. Petruccione said the PGA Tour was selected via RFQ to manage clubhouse and tee-sheet operations and had agreed to perform the service without taking a management fee, producing an estimated $192,000 savings in the 2010–11 budget.
Budget staff noted that even with fee increases the golf fund would still face a projected operating deficit: estimated revenues of about $8,129,000 against an operating budget of roughly $8,500,000, leaving a general fund subsidy in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The budget analyst recommended amending the ordinance title to remove references to Fleming Golf Course so it applies only to Harding Park cart fees, and the committee accepted that amendment.
Supervisor Sean Ellsburn and others pressed staff on resident vs. nonresident rounds; Petruccione said resident rounds outnumber nonresident rounds substantially (about 30,000 resident rounds versus 5,600 nonresident rounds in 2009–10). Supervisors discussed the trade-offs of land use and subsidies for recreation programs while acknowledging the PGA partnership could increase out-of-area play and reduce the subsidy.
The subcommittee moved the item forward with the budget analyst’s suggested amendment and recommendation to the full board.
What’s next: The ordinance and the budget-analyst amendment will go to the full Board of Supervisors for final action.
