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City recreation officials warn summer camps will be strained after PCTA becomes unavailable
Summary
Board members and staff said construction at PCTA will reduce single-site sports-camp capacity, leaving hundreds on wait lists and forcing multi-site plans; staff gave enrollment and hiring figures and said capacity is constrained by staffing and facilities.
City recreation officials told the Recreation Advisory Board on May 13 that construction at a longtime partner facility, PCTA, has materially reduced the department's ability to run large, single-site sports camps this summer, contributing to long wait lists and a scramble for alternative sites.
The board heard that sports-camp enrollment for the 2026 sports-camp season stands at 461 with "almost 300" children on a wait list, and that the department will use Hope High School as a contingency because PCTA is unavailable for the season. The director said PCTA previously allowed rotating weekly programming at scale and that Hope's gym and cooling conditions cannot replicate…
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