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Charleston parks committee tables proposed fee schedule after debate over tournament rates and field access
Summary
The Charleston Parks and Recreation committee postponed a proposal that would move park fees out of ordinance and into a council-approved fee schedule, after members raised concerns about tournament pricing, priority for local youth teams and enforcement of subleasing rules; staff will return with edits.
Charleston’s Parks and Recreation committee voted to lay over a proposed change to the city’s parks fee rules after a lengthy discussion over who should get priority for fields and whether tournament fees are too low.
Attorney Baldwin explained that the bill (introduced in the meeting as bill 8,067) would remove the current fee schedule from the municipal ordinance and instead authorize a separate fee schedule and regulations adopted by resolution and kept on file with the parks director and the city clerk. “It’s going to promote efficiency,” Attorney Baldwin said, adding the change would allow the city to update fees by resolution rather than by ordinance so adjustments could be made without multiple ordinance readings.
Committee members pressed staff on how the change would affect local youth leagues and whether outside travel tournaments could…
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