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Board reviews benefits-based fee "pyramid," signals nonmember pass increases
Summary
Staff presented a new fee framework that keeps member assessment benefits at the base while shifting more costs to nonmember and individual-use fees; staff noted a potential nonmember recreation pass adjustment that would raise a pass in 2025 from about $705 to roughly $817 under current assumptions.
Staff presented a benefits-based fee "pyramid" to guide how the association sets fees for services that range from assessment-included amenities up through fully individual-pay offerings.
The presenter said the goal is to be transparent about which services are included in the base assessment, which are partially subsidized, and which should recover full cost. "This was not an exercise to raise member fees," staff said, noting the proposed work is intended to increase nonmember fees where appropriate and collapse or simplify some of the roughly 800 fee lines.
As an example, staff walked through the non-member recreation pass trajectory: staff said a prior increase raised nonmember passes and, under last year's motions and current assessment assumptions, a nonmember pass could move from about $705 to approximately $817 for 2025. Staff cautioned that changes to nonmember pricing may reduce pass sales and urged the board to weigh revenue vs. utilization trade-offs.
Directors asked for more time to review the full fee schedule and requested a focused agenda item and more hours at an upcoming meeting to allow detailed line-by-line questions before November ratification. Staff said non-assessment fees will come to the board for a vote with the budget in November and invited written questions in advance to speed review.
What happens next: staff will include fee changes as part of the first-draft budget packet and bring full documentation and rationales to the board for questions ahead of the November vote.
