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Council amends and adopts updates to county facility rental fees, adds trial airport meeting fee and nonprofit discounts
Summary
Council adopted revisions to Policy 1735 governing use and rental of county facilities, simplifying most fees to a single personal rate, adding family and vendor options, allowing foster families free access to selected recreation facilities, and clarifying stable‑lot billing to 'per annum' plus provisions for refunds and mitigation when county events bump reservations.
Los Alamos County updated Policy 1735 on Aug. 26 to clarify and simplify fees for county facilities and lands, add new vendor and family‑rate options and to create procedural paths for nonprofit discounts and limited refunds.
Parks and recreation staff reviewed the fee package, telling council the update moves most uses to a single personal rate (removing separate business rates in many categories), adds mobile food‑vending locations as an option and creates a trial rental fee for the airport meeting room. The policy also includes a targeted free‑admission provision for foster families and children in CYFD custody at selected recreational facilities.
Council discussion focused on wording clarity in the stable‑lot fee section (the policy previously said fees were “per hour unless otherwise noted”), with councilors and stable owners asking that the stable‑lot charge be explicitly listed as a per‑annum fee. Public commenter Lisa Reeder and councilor Reedy urged a change from ambiguous wording to an explicit "per annum" description. The council moved an amendment to adopt the revised attachment D, change stable‑lot fees to per annum, add language allowing refunds to be considered and require consideration/mitigation when county programming bumps prior reservations. The amended motion passed 7‑0.
Staff said nonprofit discounts (up to 25% by department director and full discount by county manager) remain available under the policy’s fee‑exception provisions and that staff will refine language for clarity and post the revised attachment.
