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Board directs policy review to allow fees for fields, energy use and remove nonprofit youth exemption
Summary
The Howard County Board of Education voted to direct the superintendent to begin a policy review of Policy 10.020 to (1) institute a revised energy fee for all community users, (2) change facility fees to “use fees” to include sites and grounds, and (3) rescind the exemption for nonprofit youth organizations; the board emphasized a formal policy process and public hearings before any implementation.
The Howard County Board of Education on Feb. 19 directed the superintendent to begin a formal policy review of Policy 10.020 (Community Use of Facilities) that would allow the system to charge energy fees for all community users, expand facility fees to include sites and grounds such as fields and diamonds, and rescind the exemption currently held by nonprofit youth organizations.
Board Chair Mallow put the motion to the board after staff described the distinction between policy language and the separate fee chart the district posts online. Anthony DiBella and Lanan Xu, who had introduced the OBRC recommendations earlier in the meeting, were cited as part of…
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