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Brainerd Park Board directs staff to standardize tournament and special-event staffing fees
Summary
The park board voted to move away from a flat $150-per-park flat fee for youth tournaments, directing staff to return with a standardized staff-cost proposal; adult tournaments will be billed $150 plus any requested staff time, and special-event add-ons will be charged as fractional staff time.
The Brainerd Park Board voted to change how it charges for tournaments and special events, moving away from a flat $150-per-park model for youth tournaments after staff warned the city would lose money under that approach.
Parks staff told the board that five youth tournaments held across two parks in 2025 generated about $3,793 in invoiced charges and that a flat $150-per-park-per-tournament rate would have produced roughly $1,500 in revenueresulting in an estimated shortfall of about $2,200. "If we charged a flat rate of…
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